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Is Happily Ever After Real?
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by Aaina Jassel
appily ever after. A wellknown phrase used for years and years to describe the ending of a story. But just how happy is it? The phrase ‘fiction is fun’ comes to mind when I think of a ‘perfect’ ending because that is exactly what it is, fiction. Yet how do these endings set us up for life? Do they give us unrealistic expectations? Or are they simply just a way to escape our own reality?
Stephanie Perkins. Over the course of this novel it’s a typical girl meets boy, they go through obstacles, big fight and then a romantic gesture which fixes everything. The end of this novel seems to suggest that this couple will last forever when in reality roughly 14% of people marry someone they met in school. Alongside this as soon as the couple get back together all their other problems seem to fade away and disappear leaving the perfect happily When we read fiction books we can get ever after we’re so familiar with. consumed by the stories, the clichés and mainly the way everything resolves in Parallel to Perkins novel, The Sun is the end, creating the perfect ending in also a Star by Nicola Yoon follows a standalone novels or in those part of a similar pattern. In this novel the girl and series. The first novel to showcase this boy meet for just one day and manage is called Anna and the French Kiss by to fall in love. As soon as that day is
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