Narrative Theory - Jelly Baby Task

The History of The Jelly Baby Four

All is good in jelly baby world and the baby four are all happy.

However black jelly baby was feeling out of favour.

He felt the team should be more adventurous.

However the rest of the team disagreed, and out of frustration, black jelly baby left.

He went to a secret hideout at the far end of town, while the rest turned  their back and headed off. 

Embracing his new evil side black jelly baby took the weakest of his friends, Orange. 

He took Orange all the way to his hideout and......

He killed him, as Orange refused to join him.

After realizing that they were missing a man the rest of the gang came to look for Orange, however to their shock they found him dead.

The Rest of the gang in their anger looked for black knowing he had killed Orange and surrounded him. A huge battle was initiated and finally.....

Red and Yellow mounted their revenge and defeated black jelly baby, and in so swearing they would defend good and battle evil in order to honor their late friend Orange. 

Aim of the Task:

The aim of this task was simply to learn how narrative works and what it actually means. We used Todorov's theory of equilibrium – disequilibrium – new equilibrium and used jelly babies to demonstrate this. From the task we learnt that narrative is not the story but the way the story is made up. Todorov's theory suggests that in the beginning of a story there is a balanced state that is considered normal. Then a problem occurs that leads to a disturbance in what is considered normal. Finally a new equilibrium is formed where another (new) state of normal is created. (For more read the narrative theory post)