 The fictional world that most resembles the actual world is based on the “principle of minimal departure.” This idea was first articulated by John Searle and refers to the fundamental property of an imaginary world that is minimally different from the familiar world in which we live.Lubomir Dolezel has developed a similar typology based on modal operators that determine the narrative world.Frank Kermode, in his seminal text "", argues that ultimate meaning is derived from the end; successive events are predicated on previously established meaning.