The Barthes Code

The Hermeneutic Code:
This is the part(s) of the story that are often unanswered(like enigmas) they don't necessary have to be at the beginning of the story and thriller tend to uses them at the end of the story, so they are revealed straight away.

Examples:

The Proairetic Code:

Actions suggesting further actions/reactions, also known a the actions code e.g. an argument and waiting for the answer/resolution.

Examples:

The  Connotative code:

The accumulation of connotations. Sequential thoughts, traits and actions constitute character. its the voice of the person.
The Cultural code:

  Though all codes are cultural we reserve this designation for the storehouse of knowledge we use in interpreting everyday experience. it is the voice of science usually.

The Symbolic code:
Binary oppositions or themes. This leads to the cultural code and highlights their importance.

The codes are complicated by partial delays and interruptions.

1.  Thematisation: emphasis on object which will be subject of the enigma.
2. Proposal of enigma: questions in the text.
3. Formulation of enigma: frequent supplementation of the enigma as the text progresses.
4. Request for an answer: facilitates narrative movement.
5. Snare: types of deception

• deception of one character by another.
• deception of the reader by the discourse. 
•  character deceived by self.

6. Snare and truth: A statement which might be taken two different ways.
7. Suspended answers.
8. Partial answers.
9. Disclosure: a discussion or uttering of the irreversible word, closure, the end of signification.