(2) The mid-point of the novel is a clearly marked ‘turn,’ at which point the narrative shifts from exposition started at the opening and inciting incident back to the finish (it has pointers to or echoes of both beginning and end). (1) A ring-story begins and ends with the same scene, characters, or dialogue, a question being answered or a mystery resolved, and acts as a ‘latch’ to the circle. Regular readers of this weblog are more than familiar with this traditional story scaffolding but for those new to structural analysis - the turtleback tale and narrative ‘reverse echo effect’ – the shortest of introductions are these four rules.
Rowling and Robert Galbraith are ‘ring writers.’ Rowling’s Harry Potter novels, her Casual Vacancy, and the first Fantastic Beasts screenplays as well as the Cormoran Strike novels written under the alternate pseudonym of ‘Robert Galbraith’ are all written in parallelist structure that anthropologist Mary Douglas called ‘ring composition.’ Lethal White is no exception.
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