M. Bakhtin once said, "We are to our own lives what the authors are to the books they write (Bakhtin in Gallagher, 40)." It's really hard to disagree with this assertion. The best evidence of this statement can be found in the story "Happy Endings" written by Margaret Atwood. The author develops, in a very interesting and attractive way, the idea of living a life and writes a plot of the story. To find a good understanding of those concepts, it is impossible to skip the process of asking correct questions and, of course, getting answers. Margaret Atwood like no one else does it so skillfully through asking a reader just two simple questions: "what" and "how and why." It is really hard to disagree with the essential inevitability of those questions to the one, who is interested in finding correct answers on the how-to-live-a-life questions. Thus, the theme of the story, as you could probably guess, is very simple: "A good plot or a good storytelling is a correct questioning and answering." This theme will be supported through the analysis of the plot, characterization, the point of view and the technique the author uses to develop her idea.
The author has a very complicated, complex and twisted plot. The story in itself is extraordinary because it is hard to find the climax, the rising action, the discriminated occasion and the falling action. Of course, A-story - as it is, can be a poor example of the climax, attracting the attention of the reader to what the story is going to be about. The author is using the very deep human need to keep the reader interested. Everybody tends to be happy and loved and everybody searches for this magic issue or formula to receive it. It makes a reader wonder what will happen next. On the oth...
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...f ."..what and a what and a what (71)." The author shows, on the other hand, that what is really meaningful is not "what", but ."..How and Why." It is not that important to live a life or to write a plot of the story, knowing just what to do and another what to do, but to live and write, knowing two little things "How" and "Why."
As it was already mentioned those questions are really important in the area of basic beliefs and personal worldview. Why do I believe what I believe? How does it influence my life, and how do I have to live with it? The answer to those questions is more important than just pathetic what to do now and what to do later. A happy ending does really depend on "How and Why." In the beginning M. Atwood says: "If you want a happy ending, try (69)..." and she finish with the same "try", but another by sense and meaning "try How and Why (71)."
Life is a complicated process. It’s filled with many things that keep it interesting but at the same time, very dull. Life’s what you make it and for many, it’s something we all strive for. In the story, The Space Between, the author takes full advantage of the premise as there’s rarely a dull moment- as in life. The book is filled with many literary devices that work nicely with the plot and dialogue. These include; metaphors, similes, irony, personification, and many more. We follow a young man who is finding his way in the world. He has only a week to change his life for the better. But he will face many obstacles on the way that brings the readers into a startling and fun journey.
Many of the story’s aspects were dominated by setting a slow rise and crashing climax. There were many such climaxes, Pg. 2, Pg. 7, and Pg. 9, give this such evidence. The flow kept me interested, and would grasp my attention as a TV show would. Although is context was far from a TV show. There was much talk about civil lifestyles by the town folk, which were a particularly an odd selection of people to intervene in such a story. Although the reaction witnessed by this allowed us to get another insight, from a second person perspective.
These help the reader become a better person and make educated life decisions, unlike popular fiction stories which give the illusion of ‘happily ever
In these essays, the authors are telling a story about the characters life. The stories are directed towards the audience to express the kind of pain and suffering the characters went through to learn and apply what they had been yearning for.
The ability to tell one’s own story, to speak one’s mind, is the best antidote to powerlessness. Tan’s writing instills agency and visibility in Chinese American women. The silence is broken, and their new voices are constructed in collective storytelling, a language of community, without denying or erasing the different positions such collaboration encounters. Tan compels each of her characters to tell their own story in their own words, thus (re)creating the meanings of their life. The interrelated narratives make sense only if readers can discern the specificities of each woman’s story as located within the novel.
1. Growing up we all heard stories. Different types of stories, some so realistic, we cling onto them farther into our lives. Stories let us see and even feel the world in different prespectives, and this is becuase of the writter or story teller. We learn, survive and entertain our selves using past experiences, which are in present shared as stories. This is why Roger Rosenblatt said, "We are a narrative species."
Several literary devices are implemented in the novel to convey the author’s experiences and feelings, thus contributing to the overall appeal of the writing. In his younger years
At the outset, Atwood gives the reader an exceedingly basic outline of a story with characters John and Mary in plotline A. As we move along to the subsequent plots she adds more detail and depth to the characters and their stories, although she refers back with “If you want a happy ending, try A” (p.327), while alluding that other endings may not be as happy, although possibly not as dull and foreseeable as they were in plot A. Each successive plot is a new telling of the same basic story line; labeled alphabetically A-F; the different plots describe how the character’s lives are lived with all stories ending as they did in A. The stories tell of love gained or of love lost; love given but not reciprocated. The characters experience heartache, suicide, sadness, humiliation, crimes of passion, even happiness; ultimately all ending in death regardless of “the stretch in between”. (p.329)
This is an odd little book, but a very important one nonetheless. The story it tells is something like an extended parablethe style is plain, the characters are nearly stick figures, the story itself is contrived. And yet ... and yet, the story is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking because the historical trend it describes is powerful, distressing, even heartbreaking.
“The story employs a dramatic point of view that emphasizes the fragility of human relationships. It shows understanding and agreemen...
There are many aspects in that come into play when you are writing a story. Most books follow the same formula: A protagonist an antagonist, and a fight between who will conquer who. What makes the book it's own thought is the Vision that a writer has for their world and their characters. Writer's Vision is what makes their story lively and enjoyable. The Great Gatsby and The Old Man and the Sea are primary examples on how writer vison males the book. One book is extravagant and the other is humble, but both book are seen as some of the greatest classics in Americana history.
He includes elements in his novel that many other authors do not, including his short chapters that switch between two different characters and sides of the story, the way he doesn’t start his story at the introduction of the plot, and how he switches time periods occasionally. These factors can be very difficult, and perhaps even annoying in a way to some readers, but is unquestionably genius. Once audiences can put together all the pieces of the puzzle in this novel, they reveal how truly amazing and wonderfully written the plot
The theme that Leif Enger wanted the readers to take away after reading this novel is that we should have faith in God. Through the extraordinary situations described in the book, we can learn that God is always there in our lives to pave a path for us, we need to have confidence in God to see him in our everyday life, and that we can see God through miracles and other events that happen in our life. Even when you are going through really bad moments always remember that there is a reason for that and there will always be good moments afterwards. This is as true as telling someone that tomorrow the sun will rise again. No matter what you are living at this moment if you have faith you will find a solution.
The entire story was a symbol of Needy’s life. The setting in the story was symbolic to the way Needy was feeling. Needy’s life was diminishing right before his eyes, and he did not realize it. The different changes in the story represented how much Needy’s life had gradually changed over time. By reading the story the reader can tell that Needy was in a state of denial.
Several different elements are necessary to create a story. Of all the elements, the conflict is most essential. The conflict connects all pieces of the plot, defines the characters, and drives the story forward. Once a story reaches its climax, the reader should have an emotional connection to the both story and its characters. Not only should emotions be evoked, but a reader should genuinely care about what happens next and the about the end result for the characters. Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” is the perfect example of how a story’s conflict evolved the disposition of its characters.