THE LOGIC OF NARRATIVE POSSIBILITIES:A CLAUDE BREMOND ANALYSIS OF NAVEED’S OUR STORY ENDS HERE

Abstract

The present paper examines the applicability of Claude Bremond's "Logic of Narrative Possibilities" to Sara Naveed's novel Our Story Ends Here. The theory mainly lays emphasis on the structure of narrative possibilities and on the interplay of actions, decisions, and outcomes in a given story. Here, it serves as a narrative-theoretical bardar to analyze the narrative machinery of the novel by Naveed. The paper observes how characters are conformed in making choices, having conflicts, and facing consequences using Bremond's framework in coming to identify all possible manipulations done by an author through narrative possibilities in shaping a given plot. The use of this theory is programmed in this paper to unveil the deeper levels of meaning and structure containing Our Story Ends Here as it arranges narrative possibilities that influence character arcs and eventually the incident of resolution within the storyline. Such research not only expands the knowledge on a novel but also heightens the scope for broader usage of Bremond's theory in the future analysis of contemporary literature.