Prison Break Narrative

Prison Break 

The villain — fights the hero in some way.
The hero or victim/seeker hero — weds the princess.
False hero — takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess
Linear structure standard beginning, middle, end
Non-linear structure could start from any point could include flashbacks

Prison Break is an crime action genre, the hero is Michael because he is trying to save his brother and at the start there is flashback. A flashback  is a memory from the past that is replayed to help the audience know about a character or catch up with a storyline, in the the first scene there is a flashback of Michael visiting his brother. There is a transition from Michaels body and the underground tunnels. The transitions shows from from going one place to another. There is an element of romance when the mexican guy receives a visit from his girlfriend. 

The villain is criminal justice system because they are going to kill Michael's brother and Michael goes into prison to help his brother to escape from the prison, furthermore there use of special effects when the outline on the prison shows up on his tattoo this is used so we are able to see the prison and this is used to help us visualize the tattoo. 
In the first episode of prison break has used cliffhangers a the end of the episode when ihe shows his tattoos and it transitions to the tunnel where it starts to play music. The helper is the lawyer because she tries to help with Michael's case there is a parallel narratives from Michael's journey, the lawyer's journey, the mom and the son and Michaels brother as well and all of these link into Prison break.