Muhammad Afiq Imran Othman

Flashbacks Another common form of parallel story is the extended flashback. A few quick flashbacks placed throughout a story are not generally considered parallel narratives. Some stories, however, rely on flashbacks to tell a large portion of the story. These stories flip back and forth between the story’s present and past. This story structure is an effective way to build suspense as the flashbacks at first deepen and eventually elucidate mysteries in the present narrative. Flashbacks can also help highlight themes or character development that appear in the story’s present. To have students analyze connections between a flashback narrative and a story’s main narrative, make use of a T-chart or two-columns storyboard. For each significant element of the flashback plot, have students find a connection to the present-day plot. Watching Pulang (2018) and you understood all what i told