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Linear Plot Jeffrey Tsai
Linear plot means chronological order. Chronological order that is directly able to be seen as... straightfoward.
Main
Family
Azaro
Madame Koto
The family struggles with Dad's overt opposition with the Rich Party. No matter what happens throughout with any member, in the end care and love remains.
In the beginning we see Azaro as being objective, decended to observe. But through linear plot, Azaro slowly turns subjective, develops biases that was originally not there.
Through the bar, it drives Madame Koto's gradual acceptance of the Rich Party. Chronological events influences change to the result now with Madame Koto 'loving' money.
The linear plot shows the recognition in reference to the past. It depicts resistance and difference of opinion that evolves over time from appreciation to anger.
'That evening the van of bad politics returned... We listened as the they blamed the other party for the milk. We listened as they maintaned... that is was their rivals...pretending to be them.... At the back of the van were the vary same people who had come round the first time. We recognised them all.... They seemed prepared for charity and war at the same time.' (p. 152-3, Book 2)
'Thank that woman for me... She saved my life. They were going to kill be but she appeared and they thought she was an angel and they ran away screaming...Against Dad's wishes, Mum held him under the arms and helped him walk....His voice failed him. I held on to his other arm.' (p. 283-4, Book 4)
'For the first time I understood the atmosphere of the house, I understood why the spirit entered me... They fondled my hair, rubbed my skin, and felt my bones as if, in being lost and found, I belonged to all of them...They too became reasons for staying on this earth, to sometimes taste the joys of homecoming.' (p. 25, 28. Book 1)
'She was so engrossed in the counting that she didnt notice my entry... She would count a bundle of notes and then laugh. It was a strang kind of laughter. It sounded like vengeance. She counted her money over and over again as if she had just woken from the nightmare of poverty.' (p. 249, Book 3)
Effect
The Linear Plot creates the overall backbone for magical realism to build upon. It creates an anchor, a sense of reality because this is how a story progresses.
