Analysis Of Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World

The narrator then leaves the carnival to try and get Ishmael out of it, to only return to find the gorilla dead. This book ends on a sad note, but is interesting to read, but is very informative and teaches the reader many things about the current human culture, how it came to be this way and why things should be changed in order to better the world.

In order to make this reflection as honest as I can, I’m going to have to reveal that my beliefs and idea on reading do not synchronize with those of Perrine and thus it is difficult to incorporate her advice and provide an unbiased reflection that does not conflict with the author's analytical interpretations. What is perhaps the punchline of the text states, “Immature readers seek only escape. Even when they think they are reading for interpretation or some useful moral, they insist that what they read return them always some pleasant or exciting image of the world or some flattering image of themselves” (Perrine 2). While the previous quote may not be completely applicable to me because the text was assigned, I can see myself getting lost within the text and with that, my interpretations. Had I perhaps distanced myself and not been allowed to get “lost” in the text then I would have provided an interpretation for the assigned novels with less emotional bias in it. Perrine then goes onto say an immature reader tends to “make fixed demands of every story and feel frustrated and disappointed unless these demands are satisfied. Often they stick to one type of subject matter” (Perrine 3). While I cannot see any educated individual following this, perhaps to some extent I may have allowed an untidy ending to fix my feelings toward a novel to be relatively

In “Happy Endings,” Margaret Atwood manipulates literary techniques to emphasize how each story can have different plots yet end up with the same ending. She makes the case that, in every ending, the characters finish having a happy ending and “eventually they die” (paragraph 4). She infers that it is the contents between the beginning, and the end that bring interest and challenge to the characters, while the beginnings are more fun. The “true connoisseurs” is an important element because it is what makes up the plot (paragraph 21). The six scenarios of “Happy Endings” introduce differences in the beginning and the middle of the plot but result in the same ending. The plot in each scenario focuses on the significance of understanding how

Though it was unfortunate to have such an intelligent man like Morrie to pass away due to a deadly disease in the end, I still think the ending was appropriate and satisfying. Morrie was glad to spend his hardest time with the author and we can see the author was changing bit by bit afterwards. He finds the true meaning of life and learns to love, cherish and appreciate. ‘Love wins. Love always wins.’ as quoted by Morrie. Morrie changes the author's perception of life, as well as the

The ending of the novel, in my opinion, was very depressing and filled with tragedy. Before Anton was killed, I felt that Patty and Anton had a liking for each other maybe even love. To think that death ruined their chances at love and there only chance at happiness is really depressing and sad. If I was the author, Bette Greene, I would have made the ending into something like a happily ever after fairytale. It would begin on a Thursday and the FBI putting out a warrant for Anton and Patty’s arrest. Her parents and grandparents hear about it, and decide to hide and disguise them both. Later on that day a female FBI agent knocked on their door, patty grandmother answered saying “what can I do you for”. “I’m looking for Patty Bergen and Anton Reiker” said the agent, but little she know there was no more patty and Anton. They were now Rebecca and Jacob, the agent was convinced that they were who they say they were. Eventually the warrant was dropped because they FBI got tired of looking for them, and Rebecca and Jacob lived happily ever after in there secret hideout. Of course with the help of her

The final chapter of the book was as profound but also delicately intricate as the rest of the novel. The final chapter of the book conveyed within the context a theme of joy and tragedy. The message of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena isn’t just a story of hope or tragedy. The storyline of the novel was a realistic ending for the well-developed characters. The novel contained an abundance of joy because a novel that is all dark and depressing is not accurate to reality. In times of trouble, people use humor to relax and understand their struggles. Despite it being the final state for Akhmed and Dokka they found peace down in the mud of a landfill. “ No one knew what to make of these two men who had found each other in the mud of the Landfill and begun dancing.” (Marra) The men were joyous because Havaa was safe and sound. A happy ending does not always consist of a fairytale because that is not at all reflective of life. Something is more profound than life itself and that is hope. This dark novel of war contained humor, joy, and love without belittling the

The title leads you to believe the story will go in another direction, which makes the ending a surprise.

The irony of each story came to light at the close of the writings. The ending turned out to be something totally different than what it would initially have thought to be, because of how the narratives

the end. I enjoyed this book because I thought the story was strong and inspiring. There were

In the final analysis, characters from both stories carried with them a dream that inevitably led them to irrational thinking and an ultimate downfall. In simple

Was the end of the book satisfying? No. The ending of the novel much like the novel was tragic. The two main characters in the end were murdered along with a group of other Jewish people. As tragic as the story is it teaches an abundance of good moral lessons. Don't be ignorant

Personally, I agree with Matus’s conclusions about how the ending works for the novel even though it is not really an ending at all. I was convinced of this argument based on how she uses Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem” about deferred dreams to illustrate how the end of the novel is Naylor’s way of reimagining the same message of the poem. In the poem, Hughes writes about the fate of dreams that are deferred or unfulfilled. He writes that these dreams dry up like raisins in the sun, fester like sores, stink like rotten meat, crust over like a syrupy sweet. Matus writes that she is interested in looking at “the way in which Naylor rethinks the poem in her novel’s attention to dreams and desires and deferral, and then to consider the implications of her vision in terms of the novel’s sensitivity to history and social context” (50). The unfulfillment of dreams and desires are two major recurring themes in the novel and what makes the ending of the novel so interesting is that it is a narrative illustration of these themes. The unassuming reader is actually left unfulfilled because the seeming conclusion to the novel is taken away

One of the main reasons that the original ending is better than the published ending is that the original seems to flow better with the overall themes of the novel. One of the major themes that is seen throughout the book is the theme of how growing up is an universal experience where one finds out who they

Every story that begins must eventually come to an end, and that is true for both literary and commercial fiction. In literature, there are three types of endings an author can provide within their writings: a happy end with the protagonist’s conflict resolved, an indeterminate end where the resolution is inconclusive or undefined, or an unhappy end where the conflict is not resolved at all. These three types of endings can be found in both types of fictions, with literary fiction characteristically possessing unhappy endings, and commercial fictions ending more on a happier note. In Tobias Wolff’s story of “Hunters in the Snow”, the author clearly depicts an unhappy end resulted through his characters, conflict, and overall story

The ending of the book was very disappointing to me. I really enjoyed reading about how his mother was in pure denial and wanted to keep her son near her forever and how his father knew how hard it would be but he also knew that