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    responsibility for your actions, especially when those actions could hurt others. “Everyone loves a happy ending.” Although happy endings are done and redone, they are a must in a children’s story because their young minds are so impressionable. An unhappy ending would crush their enthusiastic outlook on life which is needed to keep them positive in many different situations and settings later on in life. A happy ending is a great

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    BaoPham ENGL 1302 Option 1: Discuss the similarities and differences between the two stories. As I had read the two stories, both of them have the similarities and the differences. Both stories started out completely opposite in relationship The narrators in both stories suffer from issues due to a lack of communication. Their environments were making their relationship hard to maintain such as the car from the street make Karla Suarez feel lonely and the life surround aurora make they hard

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    Shaw’s creation of a romantic play with an atypical ending establishes and presents a sense of reality and honesty not ordinarily found within compositions similar to his. The real world is not full of happy endings, or at least not the expected ones. The Cinderella story of Eliza’s transformation is paralleled by that of a “Frankenstein creation of new life”, or Higgins molding of Eliza and her speech (2). The romance presented in the production is centered on Eliza and her ability to overcome

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    Haroun and the Sea of Stories Essay Storytelling plays an important role in people’s lives. In Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie explores the vital role stories have in the lives of multiple characters. Politicos need stories in their lives in order to succeed. Without stories, the politicos would never be able to persuade or convince voters in an interesting way. The stories Rashid Khalifa tell are a vital part of his everyday life. Without the tales he spins, Rashid wouldn’t have a

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    which Jesus has showed up in the storyline of my life and has caused me to look for him more closely in the everyday. Where is God using my story to impact someone else’s? But as the series wraps up this weekend it also has me thinking about happy endings and I had a flashback this week to a storyline out of my own life. During a period when I was in High School, my dad was traveling quite a bit

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    The ending of a story is extremely important due to the fact that it determines whether it is commercial or literary fiction. There are three types of endings that are significant; happy, unhappy, and indeterminate endings. Happy endings are when the protagonist solves their problems with either themselves or someone else. The story would usually end with a “happily ever after.” An unhappy ending is usually more about reality since in real life a happy ending is hard to find. An unhappy ending usually

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    Happy Endings Summary

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    Happy Endings Response Madison MacGregor Initial Impression Throughout reading Margaret Atwood’s Happy Endings I was astonished numerous times. Margaret was able to convey many different forms of a relationship and every single one left me feeling frustrated as I realized how brutally true they all are. As I was reading the story I wasn’t understanding to the full extent what Margaret was trying to express until the line “The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John

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    To many, a story has a happy ending only if it ends like a fairy tale with a last minute rescue. Nobody would ever considers a story that ends in death of innocent people a happy ending. Though death of innocent characters may not be the typical meaning of a happy ending, it can sometimes be far more interesting and rewarding to the readers than a clichéd happy ending. The novelist Fay Weldon stated that a story has a happy endings through its moral development. Moral development at the end of a

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    Cinderella Happy Ending

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    English 111-42 22 September 2012 Cinderella’s Happy Ending In the essay Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior, Elisabeth Panttaja, she speaks about the fairy tale of Cinderella having a happy ending and successful in the story. The author explains how Cinderella is not so motherless; instead, her deceased mother is with her through the whole the story. The author wants the readers to understand that Cinderella is well mothered and she has a happy ending. Panttaja explains how Cinderella has defeated

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    Not so Happy Endings

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    “Not So Happy Endings” In the unusually written short story, “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, Atwood gives the reader six very different possible storylines using many stereotypes and a good deal of cliché to propel a few main themes of the story. Atwood’s story is not only unusually written, it is also funny, thought provoking, and interesting despite the lack of detail and odd structure. After she has presented the six different storylines Atwood suddenly moves to the ending, which ironically

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