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story and ends
The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.
The story ends with Job restored to health, with a new family and twice as much livestock.
The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.
The story ends with George standing up during a machine-gun barrage.
The story ends with Mattie Storin looking for Urquhart at the point when it looks like his victory is certain.
The story ends with a combined Earth invasion fleet attacking Mars by landing on the planet and destroying it.
One dictionary definition is " a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily ".
When one storyline ends there are several other story threads at differing stages of development.
A lengthy shaggy dog story derives its humour from the fact that the joke-teller held the attention of the listeners for a long time ( such jokes can take five minutes or more to tell ) for no reason at all, as the story ends with a meaningless anticlimax.
As expected, the story ends on an anticlimax.
As the story unfolds, the object of his affection, Laura Lorenzini, engaged to him, breaks off her engagement, and ends up marrying a ' better suitor '.
The story ends with Alice recalling the speculation of the Tweedle brothers, that everything may have, in fact, been a dream of the Red King and that Alice might herself be no more than a figment of his imagination.
In chapter one, we are basically in the middle of the story, while the plot of the last Anarres-chapter ( i. e., the penultimate chapter, or, chapter twelve ) ends at a point before the plot of the first chapter begins.
The story ends with some young travelers they help telling them about the nuclear war, and how the world is ending.
The story ends as Godai and Kyoko arrive home with their newborn daughter, Haruka, and tell her that Maison Ikkoku is the place where they first met.
The story ends with " The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness.
This novel is a continuation of the story that ends in a cliffhanger in The Vampire Lestat and explores the rich history and mythology of the origin of the vampires, which dates back to Ancient Egypt.
The story ends with the narrator comparing the pair's mutually sacrificial gifts of love with those of the Biblical Magi:
The king, curious about how the story ends, is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion.
The story ends with the king in such disgust at the tale Scheherazade has just woven, that he has her executed the very next day.
Raymond and Meursault seem to develop a bond as the story goes on and ends with Raymond Sintes testifying for Meursault during his trial.
Afterwards, Harvey is probably reunited with his parents, although the story ends before then.
The story ends with a hint of hope for him, as he admits his responsibility for what happened to Podkayne — that he " fubbed it, mighty dry " — then shows some human feeling by regretting his inability to cry and describes his plan to raise the fairy himself.
The story ends in the year 2100.

story and Tessie
The second " Tessie " — which featured backing vocals from Red Sox players Johnny Damon, Bronson Arroyo, and Lenny DiNardo, Red Sox Vice President of Public Affairs Dr. Charles Steinberg ; and Boston Herald sportswriter Jeff Horrigan ( who co-wrote the new lyrics with the Dropkick Murphys ) — has become a theme song for the Red Sox and tells the story of the Royal Rooters singing the original " Tessie ".

story and is
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.
It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.
And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.
`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.
It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.
The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.
The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.
And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.
It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.
An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.
Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!
Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.
The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.
Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.
The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

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