Plot in the Story "Happy Endings"by Margaret Atwood

Characterization in this story ties together all the elements that help strengthen the themes in "The Lesson." The two most important characters are Sylvia and Miss Moore, but the children as a group also plan and important role. There are different types of characters and roles. For example, if we look at the big picture, we have a teacher/student or authority/subject relationship between Miss Moore and the students. If we look at the smaller picture we

In the final chapter of “The Joy Luck Club”, Jing-Mei is able to finally fulfil her mom´s wishes after her death. By flying to China with her father Jing-Mei is able to meet her twin sisters. During the trip Jing-Mai learns more about her mother and the way she loses the twins. Suyuan, Jing-Mei´s mom always hope about finding her missing daughters. When Jing-Mei is able to see her sisters for the first time, she sees how similar they look to Suyuan. Jing-Mai accepts herself the way she is. At the end Jing-Mai makes peace with her mom´s death.

Some of the other characters are Grover Persons, Nickie’s ant Crystal, her mom and dad, Amanda, and Martin. Grover and Martin are boys that Nickie met at different times while she was exploring Yonwood. At one point, Grover hints that he used to be good friends with Martin. Crystal is usually never around. She is always off trying to organize things so the house will be ready for auction as soon as possible. Nickie’s mom and dad aren’t actually in the story. They send letters back and forth. Her mom is living at home and dad is off involved with the war somewhere. No one knows where it actually is he keeps sending weird postcards to his wife and daughter.

Chinese and American cultures and societies have many differences and similarities seen in Chinese-American children. An example of this can be seen in the realistic fiction novel, The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan. Happiness is described in many ways, but as many things are described, 'beauty (happiness) is in the eye of the beholder.' Tan writes sixteen short stories to exemplify the differences in happiness between Chinese and American cultures. This is displayed in The Joy Luck Club with short stories detailing the lives of four Chinese-American daughters trying to define their own idea of happiness.

Rituals act as a source of comfort and express love towards the deceased. For example, in the Jewish traditions after a loved one has died, they practice Shiva. Shiva is a seven-day ritual where mourners sit low to the ground and withdrawal from everyday normal activities. This grace period helps mourners to explore their emotions of relief, sorrow, and regret (Diamant, 112-113). Different rituals show respect and help mourners to cope with death. Everyone wants to die with a happy ending. Author Erica Brown states, “A happier ending has two vantage points: the first from the person who is dying and the second from those left behind” (Brown, 16). Brown expresses in her book, Happier Endings, her frightened feelings about death. Her

Male identity is very prominent in the novel and it showed within four main characters. Aldrick is the heart of the novel, and he represents the Dragon. Fisheye is the second important figure in the novel and he is the warrior. Pariag and Philo are the next main characters. We cannot tell in the novel, which one was more important they were both significant. Pariag in the novel is the Indian boy. Philo is the calypsonian in the novel. The four main characters were ambivalent and it was very prominent in the novel. The four main characters had different, qualities, potentials, strengths and weakness. These characters had different approaches to their physical appearances. They were all suffering emotionally and reacted to their emotion differently. The four main characters identities were shaped by their environment Calver Hill and it created tension, discrimination, distrust among each other.

The four main characters in this book are Ed, Bobby, Drew, and Lewis. All four of these characters have very different and unique personalities. Ed is a graphic designer who is sort of a city

Throughout the short story Brush integrates caricature to illustrate what's happening. She starts off by providing a very detailed image of the physical features of the characters.

Atwood uses the first chapter to introduce the characters and establish setting. She opens up the book by starting to describe the setting of the place in first person point of view from the character. This is effective because the first person point of view allows the narrator to contextualize key terms and explain through her actions and feelings what the new setting is. For example, “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.”, “A balcony ran around the room, for the spectators, and I thought I could smell, faintly like and afterimage, the pungent scent of sweat, shot through with the sweet taint of chewing gum and perfume from the watching girls, felt skirted as I knew from pictures, later in miniskirts,

In the short story “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, there’s a lot more meaning the story that it’s not showing us. The story is a content of the ideal of love is the main message in all of the passages, they’re the same but with different people. Even though the stories are short, there’s only one meaning of the story being told. The three main messages of the stories that aren’t being taken away are: it’s easy to fall in love but it’s hard to stay in love, every story is different but it all ends the same.

The piercing sound of the buzzer goes off; game time. The teams huddle tight for strategies. I can smell the tension of my teammates. We break out and anxiously walk to the court. Each player gets into position, ready to play the most important game of their life. The rubber, orange ball is thrown up to the ceiling and tipped to my team. The game begins. My point guard yells from the top of her lungs and

Even the janitor and principal had a story to tell. We can see how each of them played a part in the film. Director John Hughes broke the use of genre conventions. The film was not just one certain genres. It was a few different genres. It was a coming of age film that was as well as comedy-drama. This is an example of a coming of age film because these high school students are getting ready to go into adulthood. There is even suspense in the film as to why these students are in detention on a Saturday. A great example is when they leave the library and they are trying to go back because they don’t want to get seen by their principal. They start to find about which way to go and this creates suspense to the audience because we don’t what the outcome could be. It could go several different ways. Throughout the movie they figure out they don’t want to be like the adults in their life. A few examples would be their principal, janitor, and parents. The characters in the film realize that they are growing up and trying to figure out what kind of person they want to become as they get

The audience only gets to see the other characters based on the narrator’s opinions. Other factors such as age and time period affect the narrators’ points of views as well. For example, Sammy is a teenage boy that idolizes the three girls that walk into A&P. Since the girls are pretty and in bathing suits, this seems like a natural reaction from someone like Sammy. Had the story been told from someone else’s point of view, they might not have described the girls the same way. For Montresor and the narrator in “Man on Sixth Avenue”, the time period that their stories take place in are a prominent factor in how they act, 1800 Italy and early 1900 New York City respectively. Montresor most likely would not have attempted murder on Fortunato had the story been set in modern times. The man in “Man on Sixth Avenue” would also most likely explained his experience in New York City much differently if he had been there in a different time period. All of these other story elements affect the way that each narrator tells the story and how the audience will feel about the story subsequently. First person narrative limits the audience’s ability to see all sides of a story, but not knowing every detail of every character makes a story that much more

People sometimes misinterpret others actions. The most common mistake is when people are using others by flirting with them, in order to make a certain person jealous, but have no intentions of dating nor any sexual desires them the person who is being used. When a person has no knowledge of being used as an object, they will have misconceptions, which creates confusion for the person as they can develop feelings for those people who pretends to infatuated with them. In a short story called “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, wrote different scenarios with several people, but each has a different endings. In one of the endings called scenario C, was about an old married man named John wanted to have an affair with another woman called Mary, but she has feelings for another man named James. Unfortunately, John seen Mary and John having sexual intercourse, which cause him to overcome with jealousy. John then decided to murdered Mary and James with a gun, and then committed suicide. Misconceptions happens with three causes when it comes to using others in order to make someone else jealous, attention, misunderstanding, and obsession with violence.

Munro introduces Georgia, Raymond, Maya, Ben, Harvey, Anne, Hilda and her former creative writing instructor all within the first few pages. The role of each character (aside from the creative writing instructor) is clouded with the details of their physical appearance or small mannerisms.