Narrative

A narrative is a spoken or written connected events,

"A whole is that which has a beginning,a middle and an end." Aristotle, poetics

The usual lay out of a story.

Freytags pryrimid (1863)
exposition- rising action - climax - falling action- denouement
Setup - rising action - confrontation - falling action - resolution


Series of conflicts Arther Quiller Couch
Man against man
Man against fate
Man against the super natural
Man against machine
Man against God
Man against self
Man against nature

Series of conflicts by Arther Quiller Couch is a list of usual story lines, man representing a "conscious" thing, for example an animal, person, object ext that moves, talks, thinks.

Examples of films shows that follow these rules
Man against man -    Toy story, Peter Pan, Taken, Shrek and Lion King
Man against fate -
Man against the super natural - The mummy, Alien and 28 days later
Man against machine - terminator, robo cop, transformers, man vs machine
Man against God - Bruce almighty, Evan almighty
Man against self -
Man against nature - day after tomorrow, 2012, the core, Armageddon and Twister