Cracking the Story Code™

Exploring the Story Code™ System of Narrative Analysis

An Introduction to Story, to the Power of Story, the Story Cone™, and a Definition of Key Terms including Story, Character, Kind, Genre, Plot, Plot Patterns, and Medium. The Family of Story and Taxonomic Models. Narrative Theory and the Narrative Wheel. An Introduction to the Farmer System of Narrative Analysis (FSNA), its Purposes, and its Multi-Perspective Approach.

The Basic Building Blocks of Story and Research Findings. A Computer Expert System (CES) Assisted Approach to Story and Text Analysis. A focus on a Story’s Linear Event Structure, the Universal Elements of Story, a work’s Identifying Plot Patterns, and the value of conducting a Traditional, 1st Level CES assisted approach to the analysis of stories and story-based texts.