The Good Family

The Good Family Chapter One

Every great story lives in a narrative universe with its own internal logic. Readers quickly come to recognize the logic of the story world. In Tolkien’s Middle-earth, for example, hobbits are comfort-loving creatures of small stature who fear going on adventures with wizards. Because of this “fact” about hobbits, readers are increasingly captivated by the courage of Frodo and Sam, who risk comfort and safety in order to resist evil. A coherent narrative universe is one of the ways we enter and are “caught up” in the story...