Plot is what happens in a story tha

Plot is what happens in a story that is a good rough and ready way to put the matter. But let us go a step farther. Plot, we may say, is the structure of an action as presented in a piece of fiction. It is not, we shall note, the structure within a story. It is, in other words, what the teller of the story has done to the action in order to present it to us. Let us hang on to this distinction between a “raw” actions manipulated by the teller of the story.
Plot may be said to be what happens in a story. It is the string of event thought of as different from the persons involved in the events and different from the meaning of events. We make such a distinction even though we know that, in fact, we cannot very well seperate an act from the person who commits it, or from its meaning as an act. The distinction is one we make in our heads and do not find readymade for us in fiction. In order better to understand the nature of a story itself.
When we say “novel”, “story” or “plot”, we instinctively imply the idea of a unity. We imply that the parts, the various individual events, hang together. There is the matter of cause and effect. In any story we expect to find one thing bringing on another. If we can detect no reasonable connection between them, if there is no 'logic' whatever, we lose interest. Every story itself is a particular writer's way of saying how you can make sense of human experience. Cause and effect constitute one of the ways of saying this. In works of fiction, however, we cannot think of cause as a mechanical thing as though one event; that is, they involve human respond to changing situations, including the possibility of action taken to change existing situations.