Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Cuasal Chain

    Today in class we talked about the importance of the Causal Chain and how it works. To summarize the causal chain I would have to say it is the things that happen during a narration that causes something else to happen.  It's important that your causal chain is structured so it's not a rambling of random events that don't really make sense to the end reader.  A good causal chain can be easily recognized once you know about them.
      Much like the tipping of a domino chain, you tip the first domino which tips the second domino and so on down the line.  A good causal chain will bring the reader to why something happened.  The last domino fell on it's side because the first domino was set in motion tipping the rest over until the last fell as well.  You can look up and down the chain of events and see how each event effected the next event.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you 100%. I think you made a great connection with the dominos. how triggering one domino or one life decision can start a series of events that quite often we do not have control of the consequences (or rather the effect)!

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