The Neverending Story

People have converted novels into plays countless amounts of time. Sometimes they work and sometimes they do not. Turning a novel into a play means challenges will be dealt with. Questions are asked and things will have to be changed to make everything fit. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and David S. Craig adapted it. Regardless, of how well the adaptation is the characters, and the portrayal end up differently, but the resolution remains the same. One instance of the The Neverending Story creating differences between the novel and the play is the characters. The main characters in the story like Bastian, Atreyu, and Falkor remain the same in both the play and the story. On the other hand the Bookseller plays a bigger role in the novel than within the play. In the play, he only shows up at the beginning to tempt Bastian into taking the book. In the novel he shows up again at the end of it. Also, the novel gives more indication that the bookseller knows about Fantastica, while the play just has a narrator saying “The bookseller grins as he watches Bastain flee.” (play, pg. 9) While in the novel he and Bastian sit down and have a conversation…

Bastian was given the chance to go inward within Fantasien; however, Bastian must emerge out of the world to complete his journey. Only then he is capable of being a storyteller who brings out the change in both worlds. By emerging out of the gate that resembles the emblem of ouroboros, Bastain exits the “circle” and re-enters to the real world. He loses the Water of life that he brought to his father who has been searching for him since his disappearance. But Bastian realizes that his…

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The endings of stories are crucial to making a good tale. Endings are used for wrapping up the falling action, explaining the mysteries, and tying up loose ends. Without endings, stories would constantly have one event after another happen with no stopping point and the conclusion would be left of to a reader 's imagination. Due to the vitality of endings, readers must evaluate them based one whether or not they do a fine job at concluding the story instead of whether the ending is happy or not.…

Sexy By Jhumpa Lahiri Usually when I’m looking for something new to read I go off of titles, I don’t read the reviews, I don’t read the blurb on the back, if the title catches my eye then I will more than likely pick it up and see what goes from there. So one day during my LIT 224 class I was going through the contents of our book and one story caught my eye, Sexy by Jhumpa Lahiri, I turned to the page the story started on and began to read. The story wasted no time getting someplace…

The way in which a story is presented can either be what Kenneth Burke refers to as good art or bad art. Good art is that which conveys multiple meanings through the context; bad art is that which only holds one meaning that is simply understood the same way among all audience members. Hills Like White Elephants can be categorized as good art through the ways in which, depending on the reader, can lead to various interpretations and understandings. Through examination of the story and its…

A Good Man Is Hard to Find The twist along with turns connected with “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” depart the readers perplexed along with riveted, relaying that the upmost believed went in the outline from the story. The author leaves the readers looking forward to good prevailing over evil yet never lets them possess their meant ending as most stories do which is what provides this account its challenging draw. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” Flannery O’Connor works by using literary techniques…

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James’ Brooksmith is the narration by an unnamed character about his experiences with a servant names Brooksmith during and after his conversations with Brooksmith’s master Mr Offord. In the story, Brooksmith starts off as more of a background character to the narrators and Mr. Offord’s conversations. But as the story goes on, Mr.Offord becomes ill, ultimately bringing Brooksmith into the story’s spotlight. Later on in the story we see the death of Mr.Offord, and then begins the decline of…