An example of a whole story would be almost any cartoon or family oriented movie, such as Ice Age or Monsters Inc. They have a good outcome and the characters face some sort of struggle in order to get to that good outcome. For example, the movie Monsters Inc is about two monsters trying to return a human girl to her own world, rather than just leaving her in their own world. The two are very opposite in their views of humans and children: one is scared of the child and believes that what the rest of the world believes is true- that humans, children especially, are toxic and dangerous- and does not want to help return the kid; the other is very suspicious of everything they’ve been told, believing that humans are harmless, though he is also scared at first. Despite their opposition, the two help the child, challenging their own beliefs and better …show more content…
An example of a broken story would be one like The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix series) or Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein/The Modern Prometheus. In Frankenstein, the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, and the antagonist, his monster, are both excellent examples of moral issues and the tug between good and evil. Neither character is quite good nor evil, however the story itself still shows the reader the balance between the two through the characters’ experiences and thoughts. In the end, evil triumphs, however, with the victor being death. Frankenstein’s final days are filled with nothing but chasing the very thing he created; the very thing whose killed multiple of his loved ones. Both of these characters are filled with anger and hatred in the final chapters of the book, and eventually, cause the death of each other. The story doesn’t exactly have a happy ending, however, the entirety of the plot is focused on different morals for the reader to take away and learn from the characters’ poor