Many people consider stories to focus on central binaries, common beliefs that are appreciated in a rating system over their opposites. However Deconstruction or Poststructuralism as others call it, says that there is no fixed center in the story and that a reader must think about the possibility of both binaries being true. They say stories contradict themselves and the ideas they create in the mind of the reader constantly, through the use of their language. Even characters who’re created to be good can contradict themselves by showing shades of evil and these slips as well as the slips in the text that show binary opposites are known as aporias. Not only does this show  the level of ambiguity of the author on what occurs in the story but it also shows that what we believe to be natural isn’t. Instead it’s created not just by language in media but also what we assume from these forms of media and the way we grew up. This doesn’t mean we can’t establish fact because we know some things to be fact and it doesn’t mean an author’s text can mean whatever because the author has their own reasons for writing. What it does mean is that an author’s text is like life and always subject to contradiction and change.

The theorist most well known for the study of Deconstruction and the belief there’s no fixed center in language  is Jacque Derrida. He believed in a free-floating system where the text can go either way, suggesting an author can just play with language and that text is just text. His Poststructuralism theory inspired others as well like fellow theorist, J. Hillis Miller, who believed the way text is structured shows that it’s breaking itself apart due to its contradictions.