What Makes A Cultural Happy Ending

In our textbook it talks about a cultural happy ending in relation to time. Something that is unfinished is seen as wasted in North America. A lot of the time in North America if a movie, event, a meal, an interview does not end well we see it as not going well despite everything that came before it. It is almost as if all the prior events and memories leading up to the unhappy ending are forgotten. I was watching a show that explains different aspects of how our brains work called Brain Games and it touched on the neurological side of happy endings. The way our memory works is that our brain is looking to connect the dots before the dots are presented. Everything is going well, therefore it must end well; If or when things do not end well we remember the difference in the trend more than the trend, should it come at the end. For example, in an interview, save the best qualities for last. If someone says,"I am late, hard-working, creative, and good in group settings" we tend to remember the last part. If someone says, "I am good in group settings, creative, hard-working and lazy" it is the lazy that sticks out because it is an unhappy ending.

In Christianity, the happy ending is seen in the redemption aspect of creation, fall, redemption. It follows the classic movie formula, things are great, something goes wrong, it gets fixed. Christ came and died for our sins and as the review of Creation Regained says, "redemption in Jesus Christ reaches as far as the fall." His death covers all and is the happy ending, should we aspect and believe what He has done for