Why did the author begin the novel by telling us that Nathan dies and that she adopts a boy who’s not related to her? What’s the point of giving away the ending? What other books or movies do you know that use this technique (i.e. structure the story this way)?
Elijah Trostel
11/10/2023 01:37:08 pm
I believe that the author purposely gave away the ending to immediately imply the theme that life happens, and we must adapt to it. The introduction states how much change and hardship has come into Rukmani's life, and the lives around her. It also is cleverly used to give away very few details so that the reader wishes to read the rest of the story, and find out what happens and what leads up to the events described in the introduction. Another book that does this is "To Kill a Mockingbird." The book opens with the narrator (Scout) telling about how her brother broke her arm, and then outlines their past, as well as using the same technique that makes the reader want to finish the story.
Nathaniel Haan
11/12/2023 02:24:42 pm
I like the way that Elijah put it with saying that the author used it to show that life happens. I would expand upon that a little and say she used it to show how you can still achieve happiness no matter how life happens, which is what Rukmani was saying in the beginning that even though she no longer had her husband she still had a serene sort of contentment. Another book that uses this is Romeo and Juliet.
Peter Caldwell
11/13/2023 07:17:27 pm
I feel there could be many reasons (that I can't name) but Elijah's seemed spot on. In the beginning It emphasized her losses and the fact that she ended up in a place that she didn't particularly want to be, life just happens. Emporers New Groove does this sort of thing where it starts off with him crying in the woods as a llama and the narrator (himself) talks about how that is him and why he ended up that way. This helped set the fact that he is going to end up in a bad place.
Fernando
11/15/2023 11:42:50 am
I think that this author read a lot of shakespear. Shalespear always told what happens in the end and this book did to. The author is probably being influenced by him and wanted to use it theirself. Romeo and Juliet is a very famous book that does this and say that they both die in the end.
Abraham Walters
11/15/2023 03:27:15 pm
I believe that Kamala Markandeya begins the novel by telling us that Nathan dies and that she adopts a boy who’s not related to her because it helps the reader to better understand what the book is all about. This gives the reader some context about what is the book's theme which is suffering. The book I found with a similar structure is a book series by one of my favorite authors, Chuck Black. The story starts with an old father telling her daughter a story and the father is the main character in the story that is about to take place.
William LF
11/15/2023 06:40:28 pm
I think the main reason the author told us what would happen in the end right in the beginning was to take away some of the sadness that comes with reading sad stories with sad endings. One of my favorite movies that does something similar by talking about the end in the beginning is MegaMind.
Hayden Ferris
11/16/2023 02:27:41 pm
I feel like the main reason the author did this is to make the reader wan to read more of the book because he started with something interesting. And there are a lot of movies that do this like detective Pikachu it starts off with a flash back of someone dying and then goes to the present time before the main person knows who died. Comments are closed.
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