PARALLEL PLOT STRUCTURES

YOU HAVE TO HAVE:

• Two or more major plots
• Usually intersecting
• (Even though they are parallel)

CHARACTERISTICS

• Nonlinear element
• Events are usually out of chronological order
• Or has something to do with human memory
• Maybe recalling events

SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY

STORY SUMMARY

• Walter Mitty is on a ship commanding the crew
• Walter Mitty is driving too fast for his angry wife
• Walter Mitty is a rich doctor saving a patient
• Walter Mitty is turning onto the wrong lane on the road
• Walter Mitty forgot what his wife told him to buy

OVERVIEW

• The story goes on like this
• Walter Mitty takes on different personas
• His wife gets more and more frustrated with him

WHAT TO THINK ABOUT

• Why did the author use parallel structures?
• How do they show up in the story?
• And how do they enhance the way the story is told?

TAKE THE QUIZ

USE IN THE STORY

• Walter Mitty' every day life is colliding with his fake life
• He is recalling different ideas or thoughts
• (Nobody knows which is reality)
• These two worlds are connected by Walter kitty's existence in them