The step from story to literature is a gray line and is based on personal taste, as Justice Stewart said “I know it when I see it” although he was referring to obscenity it is just as applicable here. This is the important part, the hows and the whys are what makes a story literature with out them it makes no difference if the prose is expertly laid out or not it is all still a story nothing more. According to Atwood, all the whats are just the plot, one thing that happens after another, however the how and the whys are what really make a story more than a story. Atwood also says that what happens is not all-important but how it happens and why it happens. However if someone knows the middle they can guess the ending, if they are told that person “A” had to have triple bypass surgery and that person “B” murdered a few people they can make an educated guess how each story ends.īut even the middle of the story is only part of a greater whole, without the beginning of the story no one can tell why certain events happened and what lead to person “A” to doing “action z”.
However if someone dies from heart failure no one can know anything about his life, they may guess the person ate too much junk food, or drank too much but if they don’t know anything else they can’t guess the middle. So since the ending is already known why does it have the tendency to “steal” the spotlight from the rest of the story? Sure in some cases people can guess the middle of a story from the ending, if they find someone died in an electric chair they can assume he committed a crime. This holds true with literature versus a beach novel although a beach novel and piece of literature may end the same way it is the rest of the book that makes one different from the other.Īs she says the true ending is “John and Mary die” the only guarantee in life is death. She seems to say that the endings are all cliché that the middle is the part that is unique. "Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-over and over announcing your place in the family of things.Margaret Atwood uses her short story Happy Endings to show that it is not the end of a story that is important it is the middle."Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." –Helen Keller."Never yet was a springtime when the buds forgot to bloom." –Margaret Elizabeth Sangster."Storms make trees take deeper roots." –Dolly Parton.Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness." –Mary Oliver "Where flowers bloom, so does hope." –Lady Bird Johnson.“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” –Chief Seattle.For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” –John Lennon
#QUOTES FROM HAPPY ENDINGS MARGARET ATWOOD HOW TO#
“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” –Mahatma Gandhi."Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." –Lao Tzu.“There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.” –Ralph Smart."I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." –Anne Frank.Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. "Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body."Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself." –Henry David Thoreau."For a time, I rest in the grace of the world, and am free." –Wendell Berry."My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature." –Claude Monet."Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." –Sir John Lubbock."Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat." –Laura Ingalls Wilder.But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." –William Blake
Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my propositions. "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way."What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?" –E.M."In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." –John Muir."Nature is not a place to visit, it is home." –Gary Snyder.
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