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By Umut Tasci TODOROV’S NARRATIVE THEORY

Todorov’s narrative theory & How its linked to 21 Jump Street

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By Umut Tasci

TODOROV’S NARRATIVE THEORY

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BACKGROUND INFO OF TODOROV

Todorov (March 1, 1939) was born in Sofia, Bulgaria

Lived in France since 1963

He is a Franco-Bulgarian historian, philosopher, literary critic, sociologist and essayist

Todorov wrote several books and essays about ‘literal theory’ , ‘thought history’ and ‘culture theory’.

He published a total of 21 books

Todorov’s historical interests have focused on issues such issues as conquest of The Americas and the Nazi and Stalinist concentration camps

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TODOROV’S NARRATIVE THEORY

Todorov suggested that conventional narratives are structure in five stages:

1. Equilibrium2,Disruption of Equilibrium

3. Recognition of Equilibrium

4. An attempt to Repair the Damage

5. New Equilibrium

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1. EQUILIBRIUM

The movie starts off with the Schmidt and Jenko officially becoming cops. Everyone is happy and everything is normal, how it should be. A disruption hasn’t occurred yet in the movie for the first part.

So the two main characters are happy, they just finished training and passed. They are enjoying their time.

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2. DISRUPTIONThe second part of the movie will have some sort of problem that will interrupt the happiness.

In 21 Jump Street it starts of when the team of two stop a gang on drug dealers.

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3. REALISATION

In this part of the film, they realise that what they have done has caused them bigger problems. It turns out that the department had to drop the charges against the drug dealers (who are highly dangerous) because they forgot to read them the Miranda rights.The two characters get kicked off the department and get sent to 21Jump Street.

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4. ATTEMPT TO RESTORE ORDER

In this part of the film, they two characters must go to a high school as undercover cops to find the drug dealers from the core. They must take them down and hand them in order to store peace again.They find the drug dealers and take them down.

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5. EQUILIBRIUM AGAIN

The drug dealers have been caught and the drugs have been confiscated. The two characters have successfully cracked the mystery and solved it undercover at a high school.They have fixed all the problems and they’re happy again.