Alternate Ending Rough Draft Portfolio:
Chosen Story: "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
For this unit's portfolio item, you will choose one story and write a totally different ending that remains true to the characters and conflict. It should also model the original author's style. Compose a one- to two-page alternate ending to your selected short story, following MLA format. Begin your alternate ending with a sentence that appears on the last page of the original short story to transition from the original author's voice to your own.
Can someone please help me? Like advice, ideas, explain to me how in the world I am supposed to change a whole story's ending and still stay in the author's original style. This just doesn't make any sense. Has anyone ever done something like this before?

Respuesta :

By following the author's style it is meant to trying to keep as close as you can to the choice of words and overall style of writing of the author, surely it is impossible to be a carbon copy of the production of someone you even do not know in person.

Basically you will have to do it the hard way, read the story, take some notes on vocabulary used, how the characters behave, how detailed the background is, and then, re-do the ending.

Once I was told that when one writes something it normally means that a great deal of what as written before will never come into the open, that is, writers try, try and try until they get what they believe is at least satisfactory. Â