This is when the narrative moves back in time. The Phantom of the Opera is told in one giant flashback, as the show’s opening scene is of the aged Raoul attending an auction selling off items from the opera house. Miss Saigon goes back to “The Fall of Saigon” midway through the second act Harry Potter has the Pensieve and Tom Riddle’s diary, allowing for magical plot important flashbacks. In The Dark Tower, Book One: The Gunslinger, the first quarter of the novel is devoted to flashbacks to events just prior to the beginning of the novel, and flashbacks to Roland’s childhood within those. In Book … Continue reading Example’s of Flashbacks