Flashback Revisited
W e've looked at the topic of flashbacks before and we compare them to the topic of backstory , saying that these are two very different things. Now, it can be noted that flashback is one way of revealing backstory , but not all flashback is backstory . The important distinction we made before was that flashback is a means of telling a story out of chronological sequence, while backstory , is from a story that precedes our current story. In For the Love of a Devil ,there is a scene in which the protagonist recalls an early encounter with his wife (pg 166). She was not his wife at the time, but rather it occurs when they are both in high school. She isn’t well liked by some of the other students, due to the rumors going around about her and her family, but Geoff makes a small effort to show kindness to her. We ask ourselves, is this backstory or flashback . Certainly, there is an element of backstory to it, since this could be part of the story of how Geoff and Heather fe...