Does Fiction Follow a Pattern or Design?

When reading a story, the beginning fiction readers often consider
the entertainment with which the story can provide them and they close
the book with the feeling that "Well, it was a nice story". They usually
are concerned with what happens and as far as the story presents them
with a set of events that they can follow and with which they can
identify, they are content, especially if the story is an adventure one.
That is why, the students of fiction courses, when encountered
with stories which are plain and lack their desirable excitement, they get
puzzled and wonder if the story has an…