Distinction between loose plot and organic plot.

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Different types of plots are

 (a) Loose plot and the

 (b) Organic plot.

Distinction between loose plot and organic plot is that….

(a) Loose plot

 In the case of loosely constructed plot the ( story is composed of a number of detached incidents with very little necessary or logical connection among themselves.

 And the unity of the narrative depending not on the machinery of the action but on the person or hero, who is the only binding factor.

The examples he gives of such loosely constructed plots are Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray and Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens.

(b) Organic plot

When separate incidents are neatly dovetailed and not treated episodically and  form the integral components of a definite plot - pattern then it is an example of an Organic Plot

 The entire plan of the novel in this case, has to be in place the story, the characters, the events and even the manner in which the novelist would like to combine or converge to bring about the catastrophe.

Example A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.