{"id":3019,"date":"2018-06-01T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:55:31","slug":"on-stories-c-s-lewiss-analysis-of-plot-and-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2018\/06\/01\/on-stories-c-s-lewiss-analysis-of-plot-and-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On Stories&#8221;\u2014C.S. Lewis&#8217;s Analysis of Plot and Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"pv-top-card-section__name Sans-26px-black-85%\">Jahanna Bolding<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">C.S. Lewis in his essay \u201cOn Stories\u201d discusses the purposes of a narrative story. He argues that a good story must do more than tell about a series of events that leads to a conclusion. According to Lewis, a story should not simply please the reader. More important than the plot is the atmosphere that the author creates within each chapter of a book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Analysis of &quot;On Stories&quot; by C. S. Lewis\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8AcUGYK53Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jahanna Bolding C.S. Lewis in his essay \u201cOn Stories\u201d discusses the purposes of a narrative story. He argues that a good story must do more than tell about a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[96,77],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literary-studies","tag-best-of-christian-writers","tag-c-s-lewis","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}