Flashback

Flashback

1. What is a flashback?

   • It is a narrative technique used in cinema and literature that consists of a linear development of the action referring to a past time.
     • Usefulness of flashbacks
       • Understanding the relationships of the characters and their backgrounds.
       • Understand the motivations and perspectives of a character.
       • Interrupt the chronological and linear order of a narrative for more depth and complexity.
       • Creating surprise or suspense.
       • Give hints or tips to remember what future shadow events
       • Creating surprise or suspense. Give hints or tips to remember what future shadow events Improve understanding of an important topic or idea
     • Characteristic:
       • This will be comical, suspenseful, tragic and romantic
       • It´s narrated in third person
       • the story must present a reason for trauma or event that has marked the character.
       • the story must present a reason for trauma or event that has marked the character.
     • The most frecuent flashbacks
       • The narrator tells another character about past events.
       • The narrator has a dream about past events.
       • The narrator thinks about past events, revealing the information only to the reader.
       • The narrator reads a letter that returns the notice to an earlier moment.

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