【正文】 I. What is Plot? Fiction, the general term for invented stories, now usually applied to novels, short stories, novella, romances, fables, and other narrative works in prose, even though most plays and narrative poems are also fictional. (P. 83. Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms) point of view?！癥es –oh, dear, yes—the novel tells a story.” This is Forster’s remark, which is worth special attention, for he is someone in the trade and with rich experience. In his Aspects of the Novel he lists “story” as the first aspect. People reading novels for stories usually ask questions like “what happened next?” and “and” what would he do next?” These questions attest to the two basic elements of a story. The one is the event and the other the time. A story is a series of happenings arranged in the natural temporal order as they occur. Story is the basis of the novel, and indeed the basis of narrative works of all kinds. how writers, through their creative impulses, convey to us their insights into human destiny and human life。character. The word “hero” originally refers to a man, in mythology and legend, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his hold exploits, and favored by the gods. In the novel, the word “hero” is freed of such noble requirements and any central characters can be labeled as heroes. Jonathan Wild is the hero in the novel of the same name by Henry Fielding, though he is a notorious highwayman. Some critics, annoyed by the connotation of “hero,” prefer the word “protagonist,” which sounds neutral. The enemy or rival of the protagonist is called “antagonist.”II. Kinds of CharactersIt is not difficult to see that characters in novels resemble people in real life in many ways. Closely related with the story is the character. Henry James said, “What is character but the Chapter Two CharacterDavid Swan1. Descriptive details: the plot of the story?action, resolution or denouement) PlotThe story and the character alone can not make a novel ye. To make a novel, a plot is prerequisite. A look at the example suggested by . Forster will help to distinguish between the story and the plot. “The king died and then the queen died” is not a plot, but a story. If we make it “The king died and then the queen died of grief,’ we have a plot. This causal phrase “of grief” indicates our interpretation and thus arrangement of the happenings.I. What is Plot? Fiction, the general term for invented stories, now usually applied to novels, short stories, novella, romances, fables, and other narrative works in prose, even though most plays and narrative poems are also fictional. (P. 83. Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms) point of view?！癥es –oh, dear, yes—the novel tells a story.” This is Forster’s remark, which is worth special attention, for he is someone in the trade and with rich experience. In his Aspects of the Novel he lists “story” as the first aspect. People reading novels for stories usually ask questions like “what happened next?” and “and” what would he do next?” These questions attest to the two basic elements of a story. The one is the event and the other the time. A story is a series of happenings arranged in the natural temporal order as they occur. Story is the basis of the novel, and indeed the basis of narrative works of all kinds. how writers, through their creative impulses, convey to us their insights into human destiny and human life。character. The word “hero” originally refers to a man, in mythology and legend, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his hold exploits, and favored by the gods. In the novel, the word “hero” is freed of such noble requirements and any central characters can be labeled as heroes. Jonathan Wild is the hero in the novel of the same name by Henry Fielding, though he is a notorious highwayman. Some critics, annoyed by the connotation of “hero,” prefer the word “protagonist,” which sounds neutral. The enemy or rival of the protagonist is called “antagonist.”II. Kinds of CharactersIt is not difficult to see that characters in novels resemble people in real life in many ways. Closely related with the story is the character. Henry James said, “What is character but the Chapter Two CharacterDavid Swan1. Descriptive details: the plot of the story?action, resolution or denouement) PlotThe story and the character alone can not make a novel ye. To make a novel, a plot is prerequisite. A look at the example suggested by . Forster will help to distinguish between the story and the plot. “The king died and then the queen died” is not a plot, but a story. If we make it “The king died and then the queen died of grief,’ we have a plot. This causal phrase “of grief” indicates our interpretation and thus arrangement of the happenings.I. What is Plot? Fiction, the general term for invented stories, now usually applied to novels, short stories, novella, romances, fables, and other narrative works in prose, even though most plays and narrative poems are also fictional. (P. 83. Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms) point of view。“Yes –oh, dear, yes—the novel tells a story.” This is Forster’s remark, which is worth special attention, for he is someone in the trade and with rich experience. In his Aspects of the Novel he lists “story” as the first aspect. People reading novels for stories usually ask questions like “what happened next?” and “and” what would he do next?” These questions attest to the two basic elements of a story. The one is the event and the other the time. A story is a series of happenings arranged in the natural temporal order as they occur. Story is the basis of the novel, and indeed the basis of narrative works of all kinds. how writers, through their creative impulses, convey to us their insights into human destiny and human life。Introduction and how social concern is involved in a specific form of human im