Narrative Structure - Bordwell and Thompson.

Bordwell and Thompson deinfe narrative structure as being - "a chain of events in a cause-effect relationship, occurding in time and space". This means that within a narrative would start with a normal situation, then something new would come along and change it causing other things to happen and then there would be a new situation at the end.

In the case of The Shining, we start with a normal family, who then have to move away for their fathers job, the isolation and hotel drive the father insane, he tries to kill his family, they escape, he dies.