I would like to talk about the movie called Green book,  the movie describes how a white man changes his mind about a black musician in a narrative way. Green Book is about the relationship between two real-life people: Donald Shirley and Tony “Lip” Vallelonga. Shirley was born in 1927 and grew up in a well-off black family in Florida, where he emerged as a classical piano prodigy: he possessed virtuosic technique and a firm grasp of both classical and pop repertoire. Vallelonga was born in 1930 to working-class Italian parents and grew up in the Bronx. As an adult, he worked as a bouncer, a maître d’, and a chauffeur. Shirley about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and protection, Shirley recruits Tony Lip, a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the two men soon develop an unexpected bond while confronting racism and danger in an era of segregation. for example, After a bar incident leads to a group of white men threatening Don’s life, Tony rescues him by threatening to pull a gun on them. He instructs Don not to go out without him for the rest of the tour.     

 Culler mentions narrative give pleasure, to amuse listeners by giving a new twist to familiar situations. the pleasure of the narrative is linked to the desire. plots tell of desire and what befalls it, but the movement of narrative itself is driven by a desire. stories also have the function that teaching us about the word, showing us how it works, enabling us through the devices of focalization to see things from other vantage points and to understand others. novels in the western tradition show how aspirations are tamed and desires adjusted to social reality. narratives also provide a mode of social criticism, they expose the hollowness of worldly success, the world’s corruption, they expose the predicaments of the oppressed.

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