Todorov’s Narrative Structure

Genre example	Establishing problem	Elaboration / development	Complication	Action climax	Resolution
Romance	Hazel meets a boy in in a cancer support group from which had survived from cancer.	Both Hazel and Gus have something in common which is cancer. Gus has had a replaced leg due to his cancer	Gus’s cancer had come back. One night Gus goes out to the store to get a pack of cigarettes and when he is in the car he starts to spit up blood and cough so he calls Hazel	Hazel reaches Gus to see him spitting up blood. She then call up an ambulance and he is taken into hospital. Once he was taken into hospital he was stable for a night then he died as the cancer had stopped his heart from working.	Hazel grieves and attends the funeral from which she had got a letter from one of her favourite book authors that was shown earlier in the film who had a letter from Gus who wanted it to be given to Hazel once he died explaining to her how much he meant to her. Once reading it she accepted it and moved on.
Horror	There is a house full of murdering voodoo/black magic witches	The Witches are killing/harming people who come in their way. There are girls who are witches living under a head witch.	The girls use a resection spell in order to bring a good boyfriend back who had died. A woman had found a lady who was very cruel and had a potion thinking it was for love when it was for eternal life in order to suffer to see the whole world go by while she is in a coffin buried but got out.	When the girls are getting interviewed one of the witches get paranoid about the situation which leads to the witch admitting the truth about what really happened. Which lead their head witch go into their room and push them onto the floor.	To fix the problem and re gain their masters trust by going and making a good boyfriend out of dead body parts of different men using the resurrection spell
Action	Peter had got bitten by a spider	Peter had noticed that when he had put his hand into a certain position that the substance that spiders produce when creating a cob web had come out of his hand when he made that certain position.	Once he finds out that he has been bitten by a spider and has these powers he goes on a question to help people.	He uses the powers he has in order to help people who are in trouble and in need and uses these powers in order to find out the story behide his uncles mysterious death	He eventually finds out the story of his uncles mysterious death.
Sci Fi	Damon is born in the 1800 and was born in a town called Mystic falls. Damon and his brother happen to fall in love with a 500 year old vampire who is called Katherine. She declares her love to them however both Damon and his brother die trying to protect Katherine therefore leading Damon and his brothers turning into vampires.	Damon and Stephan have not fallen in love with a girl called Elena who was Katherines doppelganger. However Stefan was dating Elena but Damon acted like he did not care that they were dating and becoming the bad brother.	Elena finds out about Supernaturalism. Damon acts like he does not know what she is talking about sarcastic around everyone.	Elena and Damon have had good moments between them. An example of this would be when he shows up in Elenas room in the night or whenever she was in need of help when it came to helping to save her friends. All of a sudden Katherine comes back and trys to create problems between all four of them	Eventually as the programme goes on Damon and Elena fall in love then eventually start dating.