AIQS Class Workbook: spring 2024

Summarizing Janet Murray Passage 4

4. But a multithreaded story can offer many voices at once without giving any one of them the last word. This is a reassuring format for encountering a traumatic event because it allows plenty of room for conflicting emotions. It lets us disperse complex, intense reactions into many derivative streams so that we do not have to feel the full flood of sorrow all at once. (Murray, page 136)

Janet Murray argues that a complex intricate story allows for multiple perspectives of an event to be portrayed. This allows the audience to experience events from different angles and not all at once, which creates more complex emotions while not overloading the audience (Murray, page 136).

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