What you’ve got is not a spine but a formula. The “spine,” the way you build it, might better be considered as ribs.
What is the spine? To cite Aristote: What give a story unity is not as the masses believe, that it is about one person, but that it is about one action. The actions proper, he would have us understand, are the events that contribute to the oneness, the universal action that unites the multiplicity.
