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littlecm
littlecm
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What does plot have to do with Margaret Atwood's "Happy Endings"?

I have to write a 3 page paper on how one part of the story makes is the influence for the rest of the story and i have nowhere to start.

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Posted by littlecm on Saturday February 3, 2007 at 8:06 PM and tagged with happy endings, plot.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    eNotes Editor

    To start thinking about what plot has to do with Atwood's fun little story "Happy Endings," consider what a plot is. A plot is part of a story, and specifically, it is the way events are arranged in a story to help create emotional response and suspense. When writers create plots, they show the connection between and among things: B happens because A happened, and that leads to C, etc.
    Well, in "Happy Endings," Atwood sketches out bunches of common plots and shows how arbitrary they are, as a way of having fun with the idea of plots and stories.

    Greg

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    Posted by gbeatty on Monday February 5, 2007 at 12:12 PM

  2. revolution
    revolution Teacher
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    Sorry, repeated again. Additional information is that if you have a plot, it gives a foresight to future events and you will know the story better.

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    Posted by revolution on Tuesday September 15, 2009 at 1:59 AM

  3. revolution
    revolution Teacher
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    The plot is related to the st6ory. It gives a main ovesight over the whole story and

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    Posted by revolution on Tuesday September 15, 2009 at 2:00 AM