Write a brief essay of no less than 490 words and no more than 500 words on the central characteristics that, in your view, contribute to a successful or satisfying story.
Many people read short stories and these short stories provide compact detail of someone’s life. It provides the background of the individuals life, crucial moments which are similarly built upon and then leads to the end results of those moments. The intention of the story should be to interest the readers by its strong main character and climatic or suspenseful end. These two are the indispensable features that makes the story worth reading by providing captivating experience to its readers.
First and the foremost necessary component of impressive story is its main character. It is the main character that can make the story either extremely pleasing or boring. For an impressive positive story, the main character should be able to make readers feel that they can accomplish similar tasks as it is accomplishing in the story. It should also be able to broaden the reader’s thought through the indirect experience of story character’s life. It should be something realistic so that readers can imagine themselves living the life of main character so that the can understand emotions of it. For instance, Charlotte Perkins Gilman the author of “The Yellow Paper” illustrates the mind and emotions of the woman who is suffering through mental breakdown, which catches reader’s attention. It provides an indirect experience of being emotionally ill and also make people understand the feelings of people who are suffering through emotional illness. The readers of story were able to visualize themselves living life of that women.
It is not only the main character that makes the story interesting but it is also the climatic end that makes it notoriously ironic. It is the pivotal point of story which reveals the resolution in a very dramatic way. The twisted end of story interests the readers a lot and makes the story easy not to forget. Also, it makes reader wonder about end resolution as reader keep reading to know more about that. As a result of that, story becomes catchier to the reader. For example, Sonny the character of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s blue” Sonny goes to the nightclub which concern’s his brother because he thinks that the environment of club will take him in wrong direction. But when he visits the club and watches sonny play music and being praised and respected by the spectators makes narrator happy. It interests the reader’s a lot.
Although, there are many other features like plot and that contribute to a successful story, however, main characters and climatic end are the significant features among them. For the story to be successful, these two features should go hand in hand; if one of these features is too strong or too weak the story cannot be good. The purpose of story should be to make readers reading experience exceptional by making them realize the theme of story.
Works Cited
BIBLIOGRAPHY Baldwin, James.”Sonny’s Blues.” R.V.cassill, Richard Bausch The Norton Anthozogy of short fiction. Eighth Edtion. New York: Norton, 2015. 57-79.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Gilman,Charlotte. “The Yellow Wallpaper”. R.Vcassill, Richard BauschThe Norton Anthology of short fiction. Eighth Edtion. New York: Norton, 2015. 580-591
