Todorov believed that most stories follow a sequence of events that are created to make everything back to how they were originally at the beginning of the film.
"Equilibrium - a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced."
The definition above is from google and it states that everything is as normal and nothing out of the ordinary is happening or dramatic problems exist. The narrative story applies well his theory as a small population are affected by a books influence into a state of dis-equilibrium.
Stable Equilibrium - Everyone is living their own happy natural lives while a philosopher is creating a new book ready to publish.
Disrupted Equilibrium - Philosopher has heart-attack mid creation of the book and multiple un-answered deaths occur soon after.
Quest to restore equilibrium - Friends of an investigator and friends of friends ect. are handed the book before questionable death on an answer to solve the deaths (Evil Dead is a great example).
Climax - The last reader of the unpublished book accidentally creates a house fire in which the book is destroyed and never found again.
Resolution - People never find the answer to the unexplainable deaths but link all deaths to the book. Once again people live their regular lives without the lives of the recently deceased.
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