Step 6: Narrative

In the unsigned song, 'Zombie by Miser', we as a group have discussed the Narrative in this song. We first discussed, what narrative could the song be? So I thought that this song was set in a city or a town and there are zombies trying to take over that city or town. But then in the songs lyrics it says, "With their tanks and their bombs, and their bombs and their guns." This most probably out of anything suggests that the army is in this narrative and they are annihilating the infected. We also thought that this could be a war, we got this idea from the bit in the lyrics, "It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen". In 1916 it was only two years away from the first world war, but maybe in 1916 it was getting to that point where the war was being decided. And also we know that this could be set in a war because of the lyrics again, "With their tanks and their bombs, and their bombs and their guns". So this song can be set in a zombie apocalypse, or a war.

In this song it does not follow Todorov's narrative theory where it starts at a Equilibrium, which is where in the story it is peaceful and then there is a Disequilibrium which destroys that peace. Which then after that, it ends with a New Equilibrium which is most probably a better Equilibrium than the other Equilibrium was at the start of the narrative. In this unsigned song it starts straight away as a Disequilibrium and nothing more. It then ends in the same Disequilibrium and there is no Equilibrium in the story of the song at all.

We have decided as a group, does this song follow a Linear narrative, or a Non-Linear narrative? All of us suggested that this song was a Non-Linear narrative, because it starts talking about a child is slowly taken and then a tiny bit further in, it talks about families, most probably flash-backing to the family. So the songs story does not follow in a straight line and that is also what a Linear narrative is, where everything in the story keeps going forward. However in this song it feels to us that it keeps flash-backing to bits, for example the army with their tanks and bombs, a child is slowly taken and about someones family.