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In this blog, Isabelle Fernandez talks about It's Kind of a Funny Story. Or, to be more specific, the idea that it brings up. She talks about how she only likes the book because the end of the ending, the last page even, makes everything else better. She relates this to Shakespeare's play, All's Well that Ends Well. At the very end, she questions the reality in this theory. Sure for movies and sometimes books, everything is forgiven and the happiness is restored in the ending, but not in true life.
One reason I like this post is the following: Half way through reading It's Kind of a Funny Story, I stopped. I got bored with it, and put it back on the shelf. Maybe I should've continued? If the god part is at the end, it's like I just missed a finally leaving train after waiting for it forever! Isabelle has me tempted to go pick it up again, just to see what happens on the last page.
Another reason I like this blog post, is because of the relation to Shakespeare. Isabelle Fernandez says that just the title of this play brings up the question of whether a great end to a story makes up for the bad beginning. In my opinion, it can in stories. It does all the time, and the stories are still generally good. But not in reality. Isabelle says that it happens in reality, but "doesn't erase the unhappy event entirely."
I agree.
When a person is unlucky, and has a tough life and gets a good break? That's an all's well that ends well.
When two people are fighting, and make up? That's an all's well that ends well.
When the quality of anything increases, that's an all's well that ends well.
But In reality, these should be called..... all's Well that ends well... then ends badly.
Most times, Isabelle is right. Just because it may seem like everything is okay, that previous events probably aren't totally made up or. They needed to be made up for for a reason, and they can't just magically be made all better.
In conclusion, I just totally agree with Isabelle Fernandez.
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