The plot plays an integral part of a story. Without a plot, the development of a story can be completely non-existent. With a plot, we find out why these are events are happening in a story. However, an author may not give us the answers to why these events happen. In the short story "Happy Endings" we see how the plot of a story can change dramatically. From reading The Theory Toolbox, we see how an author doesn't give us the answers to why events happen, they want us to figure it for ourselves.
In the short story "Happy Endings," Margaret Atwood gives us multiple scenarios of how stories could end. Right from the start, we are introduced to a cliche love story that our society is used to. John and Mary (the main characters) fall madly in love, get married, have kids, and grow old together until the end of time. The next
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The main thing is what makes somebody an author. Do they have to write multiple books to be considered one? Or can writing one research paper qualify you to be an author?
We may never know what it takes to be an author. The discussion on that is all over the place. What we do know, however, is that you can decide for yourself. It is up to you to come up with your own reasoning for what makes an author an author.
An author can also use metafiction, which is a way of writing that gets the reader to react to the topic (Hamilton 24). Everybody can have their own opinion on the topic, it doesn't have to be the way the author even intended for it to come across. Which can be seen in the photo below.
What an author actually means. Source: 9GAG
What this picture is depicting, is that the way an author may write something doesn't have a special meaning behind everything. There can be instances where it does symbolize something, but not all the time. This also depicts that everything is up for interpretation. You decided how you interpret something, not someone else doing that for