literal chain of events that occur. Example: In The Pearl, Kino finds an expensive pearl, but is not willing to sell it for the low price that the local pearl buyer is willing to pay. Thus, he goes out and tries to get to where he can sell it for a higher price. After infuriating the buyer, his house is destroyed, and his canoe wrecked. Near the end of the book, his son dies in his mother's arms. Trying to break the cycle of poverty, Kino, in the end, finds himself in a position lower than where he was in the beginning of the novel. 17) Poetic Justice is the concept that all stories must end with the rewarding of good and the punishment of evil. Although some or even the majority of popular literary works do not follow this principle, it is based on the stories of the Old Testament and is often used in love stories and "feel good" type of stories. Example: In the classic novel The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes is sent to prison on the day of his wedding, an arrest provoked by his enemies. In the notorious Chateau d'If, Edmond is supposed to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement. His only companion in the prison is the priest Faria, who shares with Edmond a secret plan of escape and a map to the hidden riches on the island of Monte Cristo. When Faria dies, Edmond escapes and becomes the second richest man in Europe after fourteen years of unjust imprisonment. He returns to Parisian society as the refined nobleman-the Count of Monte Cristo. Over several years, Edmond gains revenge over enemies (Danglars, Mondego, Villefort, and Caderhousse) who had long forgotten him, and greatly helps the son of M. Morrel, the owner of the ship Dantes had been a sailor on, who had tried his best to explain that Dantes was innocent. All evil is punished, and the protagonist and the good are rewarded, thus making this an example of poetic justice. 18) Poetic License is the situation in which the rules of conventional writing are bent t...
