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The Seven Basic Plots
Christopher Booker · 2004
"Booker argues almost every story can be mapped to seven recurring plots — Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, Voyage and Return, The Quest, Comedy, Tragedy, Rebirth — because they recycle the same underlying psychological tensions."
Booker spent 34 years cataloguing plots and concluded there are really seven. Every Pixar film, every founder myth, every redemption memoir fits one of them with small variations.
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