Narrative also involves the idea of connectedness among relevant events. But what is the nature of connections in a narrative series? "Tended, grew out of, developed, evolved, trend, development, tendency, evolution, growth," J. H. Hexter has written. "Such words are like sealed junction boxes on the complex circuits of history. One knows that inside the boxes there are connections which induce the currents of history to change direction; but the boxes conceal rather than revealhow these connections are made.