Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

 
 
PLOT AND PLOT STRUCTURE THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES 
 
The impact of a literary work, as it has already been stated, depends on all its 
elements. Among them plot and plot structure play an important role. 
The 
plot 
is a series of interlinked events in which the characters of the story 
participate. The events are arranged in a definite sequence to catch and hold the 
reader's interest. The writer arranges the events, ordering them as he sees fit. 

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Most stories and novels have plots. However, there are some, which have no 
plots. To these belong stories and poems describing nature. It is difficult to trace the 
plots in the so-called “novels of ideas” and stories presenting the stream of 
consciousness, since the thoughts of the character are set down as they occur 
regardless of their logic. Yet one should bear in mind that the events in a plot need 
not always involve physical movement, the movement may be psychological. In the 
latter case, the plot reveals the dynamics in the psychological state of a character. 
Every plot is a series of meaningful events. They are meaningful in the sense 
that the writer does not follow all the events in which the characters of his story would 
participate in real life during the span of time covered by the story. He selects the 
events which are meaningful to the message 
contained in 
the story, and to 
characterization, i. e. he chooses those that serve to reveal certain features of the 
characters. their motives and morals. Therefore, each event in the story is always 
logically related to the message, the theme, the conflict, and is psychologically related 
to the development of the characters within the story. Sometimes the logical, and 
sometimes the psychological aspect may be the more obvious. 
Since the writer selects events that have special meaning in relation to the 
message of the story, every event in the plot is always suggestive. And this is what the 
reader should keep in mind. He should discover the role the events of the story play in 
characterization and in conveying the message. 
Any plot involves repetition, but it does not mean mechanical repetition. A 
plot is comprised of a variety of events, each of which recalls the reader, directly or 
indirectly, to the central problem. No matter how casual each event might seem to be 
at first glance, it generally returns the reader to the main problem of the story. 
The plot of any story always involves