The Thinker refers to stories about people who don’t do much but observe a lot about their world.
This last class of compelling story plots is a bit overarching, and there isn’t a good set of examples that fit into Freytag’s Pyramid. The Thinker refers to stories about people who don’t do much but observe a lot about their world. The story often mixes exposition and description with characterization and worldbuilding, and the story’s climax, if it exists, consists of emotional or philosophical revelations in the protagonist’s thoughts.