The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.

The story's twist — that the man from the government really was there to help — qualifies the idea that a world of directed research really constitutes a dystopia.

In the story's final twist, the woman comes into non-consensual contact with her violating member, and makes allusions to the Ancient Mariner's Tale.

Meyer wrote the story's middle portion, taking place on 20th-century Earth, and Bennett handled the ending.

If the giant kills Jack, we have missed the whole point of the story .” This observation, however, is from the Cold War perspective, wherein the West are the " good " and the East is " evil ", implying that the story's ending with the British Secret Service agent killed by East German border guards is a victory for Evil.

The story's ending is ambiguous ; Jack's fate is left open to interpretation.

The reasons for this are that it does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic ( although it is sometimes deliberately used to do this ) and is often so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, allowing the author to conclude the story with an unlikely, though perhaps more palatable, ending.

Either way, the " ending " is changed without altering the story's canon.

In the story's ending, the listener is told that " if you listen very carefully, you'd hear the duck quacking inside the wolf's belly, because the wolf in his hurry had swallowed her alive.

Critic Peter Marrow wrote: " As it stands, the story's ending makes no sense – forcing one to try to look for something left unsaid.

Shooter shows up again, this time demanding Mort fix the story's ending, and Mort feigns agreement.

* Although Brian Hayles is solely credited as the story's author, series script editor Terrance Dicks rewrote Episodes 3 through 6 of the script, partially as he considered Hayles's original ending lackluster and unworkable but also because originally Jamie McCrimmon was to have been replaced by a new companion called Nik by this story, but then actor Frazer Hines postponed his departure.

A non-linear narrative is one that does not proceed in a straight-line, step-by-step fashion, such as where an author creates a story's ending before the middle is finished.

When filming was postponed in spring of 1964, Southern returned to East Canaan and continued work on a rewrite of the script for the film version of John Fowles ' The Collector but he eventually dropped out of the project because he disagreed with the change to the story's ending.

The alternate ending ( included in the " Most Wanted Edition " DVD ) is a short retelling of the story's conclusion, primarily utilizing still images from Ken Anderson's original storyboard drawings of the sequence.

The ending of the story's narration in that episode resembles the ending in " Pip ".

The film used many of the characters of the book, but changed a lot of their motivations and the story's ending.

It is the negative traits of Aylmer such as his excessive confidence and unyielding pursuit of perfection that lead to the story's tragic ending.

There is a scene in which Rick sees Betty Lou ( Silvia's sister ) change and become Silvia, but it is just the beginning of the nightmare atmosphere which engulfs the story's ending.

The author – known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, Strangers on a Train – became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction.

The story's ending is similar to the original one but with some differences.

The story's ending is ambiguous ; it is unknown whether Gurney got caught, or escaped detection to kill again.

und die silberne Spinne ) changes the story's background: the name of the Varanian characters are altered into Swedish ; the adventure is set in a place called Magnusstad in Texas ; the local traditions ( also patterned after Sweden ) are passed off as mere tourist attractions ; and the historical facts which lead to the happy ending are changed accordingly, leading to logical background plot holes.

Elise's theme, entitled " My Destiny ," was performed by singer / songwriter Donna DeLory and plays during the last story's ending.

The story's first-person narrator, a private investigator, investigates the death of his ex-wife, found at the bottom of her swimming pool with an iron stake driven through her, and the disappearance of her daughter, last seen falling in with a crowd of vampire cultists.

In the surface story's climax, Lyra ( the heroine, symbolising Satan's Paradise Lost daughter, Sin ) and Will ( symbolising Cain, son of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost ) eat some " little red fruits " packed in a lunch for them by Mary ( symbolising the serpent-tempter in the Paradise Lost allegory and Charles Darwin, bringer of knowledge, in the Darwin allegory ).

* Dura: daughter of Logue, the leader of the small tribe of star humans and the story's main protagonist

) But the story's depiction of Persian ( referred to, in that language, as < i > farsi < i >) as the language of Lebanon and Arabic as the language of Iran reveals how superficially it treated its Middle East setting.

Amelia begins as a warm-hearted and friendly girl, though sentimental and naive, but by story's end she is portrayed as vacuous and shallow.

Stowe sometimes changed the story's voice so she could give a " homily " on the destructive nature of slavery ( such as when a white woman on the steamboat carrying Tom further south states, " The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages of feelings and affections — the separating of families, for example .").

Frequently the only full-sized character in the neighborhood segments, she acts as something of a level-headed older sister to the puppets and audience alike, and an audience surrogate, providing exposition for the story's narrative.

* Deus ex machina ( Latin ; literally “ a god from a machine ”), a resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that he or she desired

Indeed, far from being a radical or threatening manifestation of womanhood, recent academics have noted the extent to which the character of She conforms to traditional conceptions of Victorian femininity ; in particular her deferring devotion to Kallikrates / Leo, whom she swears wifely obedience to at the story's climax: "' Behold!

After the story's protagonist moves to a suburban residence, she notices increasingly uncharacteristic behavior by the other women in her community.

* Okubata: Also called " Kei-boy " by the Ashiya sisters, is one of Taeko's suitors with whom she tried, and failed, to elope ten years before the story's beginning.

At the story's start, he is proud and content to dream about a traditional marriage in which he will be the husband-teacher and she the wife-student.

A good portion of the story's humour comes from Mahoro chasing after Suguru's secret stash of pornographic magazines which, given her training, she is easily able to find.

At the time of this story's publication, she had been suffering from tuberculosis for four years.

After several sarcastic remarks from host Joe Scarborough, she attempted to light the story's script on fire on the air, but was physically prevented from doing so by co-host Willie Geist.

At the story's climax, Carson turns Barbara's feelings against himself by pretending that he never loved her, at which point she shoots him.

While the story ends in tragedy, both views of truth are important players in the story's outcome, and it is left to the reader to ponder with which he or she agrees or disagrees.