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    A view from the bridge - Endings      The first ending chosen by Arthur Miller was actually quite similar to the published one. Eddie assumes his love for Catherine and decides to kiss her once again to make her choose between him and Rodolfo‚ and stop her from marrying him. He even begs for her to stay and love him. After failing‚ his next attempt was to go after Marco to get back his name. They both engage in a deadly fight. Eddie died killed by his own knife. His last words were: “Catherine-why

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    An ending is the most crucial part of a book. Not only does it conclude the whole book‚ but it can also give the reader a whole new interpretation to what the book is about. ¡®The Lord of the Flies¡¯ by William Golding is a typical book that illustrates this point. Without the ending‚ the book would hardly amount to half of its true value. This is because the ending shows what the book is really about. If one does not read the last part of the book‚ one will not be able to see the crucial meaning

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    Alternative ending Are you ready? ‘Said Ethan . Yes ‘Mattie replied with her soft and subtle voice. They where going to make passionate love while sleighing downhill. If they succeeded to finish they would leave to go to Florida and start over again. If they didn’t make it‚ they would crash on the elm tree and their fate would be in God’s hands. They started gaining speed but because Ethan wanted it to last he purposely slowed them down. Mattie was in ecstasy and wasn’t paying attention‚ since

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    Predictable Endings Specific Purpose: To critique predictable endings to movies Central Idea: To critique by explaining what‚ peoples responses‚ and why people fall into the scheme of predictable movie endings. Organization Pattern: Topical INTRODUCTION I. Gain Attention: imagine yourself in a movie theater waiting for the most anticipated movie of the year to start and about 30 minutes in to the movie you already know what’s going to happen to each character and how the movie will

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    At first you might think that yes because he ended him friends life‚but if you really think about the whole situation George was just making Lennies life easier by ending it because if he didn’t kill him they still would of found him somewhere‚they would make him suffer by probably putting him in jail‚ taking him to a mental hospital. But basically any other option would of made him suffer and that exactly what George didn’t want for Leannie because even though George knew that what Lennie did was

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    They want to feel the heartbreak to make sure the next person they give it to guards it with their life. However‚ the few people who are okay with living “the perfect life” are not happy in it. In “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood‚ she describes five different scenarios in which a man‚ John‚ and a woman‚ Mary have different lives and situations in each one. Each story is described and then always ended the same. The characters are happy and then they die

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    seasoned with conflict; however‚ other people‚ such as scholar Marcia K. Lieberman‚ ask‚ “to what extent [do] they reflect female attributes” (259)? The short story “Happy Endings‚” by Margret Atwood takes the reader for a ride through a myriad of scenarios: which consist of the American dream‚ as depicted in part A; the real-life endings‚ seen in parts B and C; and other non-typical scenarios viewed in scenes D‚ E and F. A common theme among the parts is the depiction of the romantic fantasy. The romantic

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    Alternate Ending White Heron “The grandmother and the sportsman stand in the door together and question her‚ and the splendid moment has come to speak of the dead hemlock-tree by the green marsh…..” The grandmother asks Sylvia of her whereabouts the early morning. Sylvia is reluctant; she does not know whether to tell her and the sportsman of her adventure with the White Heron. The beautiful morning where she climbed high and heard the birds sing. If she told the sportsman would surely hunt

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    “Happy Endings” In the story “Happy endings” by Margaret Atwood‚ the theme is‚ the only similar part of life for all of us is death. But what is different is how people in this story live and die. In the story Margaret wrote‚ “You’ll have to face it‚ the endings are the same however you slice it.” It is the beginning and the end of our lives are similar‚ but the middle separates us from how we lived. What the author tries to say in this story is that all situations start

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    Ending scene: The play I have studied is Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This play is set in Verona‚ It revolves around the ‘’star crossed lovers’’ that fall in love despite their families have an ‘’ancient grudge’’ against one another. The closing scene in this play had a powerful impact on me as it was full of excitement‚ suspense drama and finally tragedy. There is a lot of suspense in the closing acts of the play as it is clear everything has already gone wrong for the two ‘star crossed

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