Sequencing - BA.BCOM.BSC.BBA CBCs 2nd sem grammar

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Sequence or sequencing a story, we observe the protagonist pursuing goals that require course correction. In other words, the protagonist must change their approach to solving the problem because they exhaust their initial strategy without getting what they want. These challenges force the protagonist to learn or master new skills and seek new information that eventually will help them better attune to the world (in a prescriptive story) or not (in a cautionary story).
These ups and downs over multiple scenes cause irreversible changes in stakes or what the protagonist risks every time they face a crisis. Taken together, the protagonist’s fortune is altered for the better or worse as they face the next challenge. 
When combined into quadrants, sequences build up to a change in the way the protagonist frames their world and their primary problem and can lead to transformation (in a prescriptive story) or doubling down on their existing worldview (in a cautionary story). 
Sequence Function
Sequences help us break down the conflict and change that occurs in the entire story. As the protagonist pursues goals across multiple scenes involving multiple value shifts, they encounter more challenging forces of antagonism that create greater conflict. That increase of external conflict forces the protagonist to seek new information or skills. To say it another way, external conflict from the context and other characters (which we call AVATARS) increases the inner conflict that forces the protagonist to alter the way they approach the problem presented by the global INCITING INCIDENT. 
Recap of the key features of a Sequence
Each sequence is two to six scenes.
Sequences change the stakes or what the protagonist risks in subsequent crises. 
Multiple forces of antagonism create greater conflict externally and internally.
The protagonist gains new knowledge or skills that will help them better attune to the context and solve problems.
The Five Commandments of Storytelling enable us to dramatize the sequence-level change

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