Closure versus Ending
Abbot
brought up an interesting section in exploring closure versus an ending in narrative. I have find myself frustrated like anyone else when there is a lack of closure in a story. Sometimes an epilogue is added to extend by the 'ending' of the narrative and give closure. But does the epilogue then count as the ending or an extended narrative? The closure acts to normalize a narrative, as Abbot explains, and thus, "the promise of closure has great rhetorical power in narrative."
The last book in its entirely of the Harry Potter saga had closure, and in each chapter, there were multiple closures to multiple narratives and masterplots or maybe these many subplots were more like skeletal plots. The end of the series was in the epilogue I felt, but that too was a piece of closure. Bringing me back to this question: how does the epilogue of a narrative, especially one as large as HP, play into these definitions of closure and ending?
EPILOGUE:
http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/jk-rowling-goes-beyond-the-epilogue.html
brought up an interesting section in exploring closure versus an ending in narrative. I have find myself frustrated like anyone else when there is a lack of closure in a story. Sometimes an epilogue is added to extend by the 'ending' of the narrative and give closure. But does the epilogue then count as the ending or an extended narrative? The closure acts to normalize a narrative, as Abbot explains, and thus, "the promise of closure has great rhetorical power in narrative."
The last book in its entirely of the Harry Potter saga had closure, and in each chapter, there were multiple closures to multiple narratives and masterplots or maybe these many subplots were more like skeletal plots. The end of the series was in the epilogue I felt, but that too was a piece of closure. Bringing me back to this question: how does the epilogue of a narrative, especially one as large as HP, play into these definitions of closure and ending?
EPILOGUE:
http://www.beyondhogwarts.com/harry-potter/articles/jk-rowling-goes-beyond-the-epilogue.html