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Writing the body The “main” part

An restaurant analogy (comparison) Essay Menu Outline Appetizer Introduction Main course Body Dessert Conclusion

The body At least 4 pages 1 page = 1 connection with your life Each page: Information about your life (Lots of details) Information from your story A quote from your story Remember to use correct formatting: Times New Roman, 12 Double-spacing Page numbers

Sample essay body

Connection 1 (My life) The first connection between my life and “Happy Endings” are the characters John and Mary. Those characters are very similar to my wife and I. In 2007, my wife and I fell in love. In 2009, we got married. We both have good jobs. We want to buy a nice apartment. We would like to have two children. Moreover, we have a great relationship, go on fun vacations together and share the same hobbies. Someday, we will die. That will be the end of our relationship.

Connection 1 (My story + quote 1) In “Happy Endings,” John and Marry have a good marriage. They have stimulating and challenging jobs, a nice house, and two children. John and Mary fall in love and get married. They both have worthwhile and remunerative jobs which they find stimulating and challenging. They buy a charming house. (Atwood 1)

Connection 1 (My story + quote 2) In addition, they have nice vacations, shared hobbies and retire together. At the end of the story, they die. They go on fun vacations together. They retire. They both have hobbies which they find stimulating and challenging. Eventually they die. This is the end of the story. (Atwood 1)

Connection 2 (My life) The second connection between my life and “Happy Endings” is the character Mary. Mary and my wife like eating in restaurants. I always take my wife to a restaurant once or twice a week. She loves eating out. Sometimes we go to an expensive restaurant such as Outback but sometimes we go to a cheap place such as Kimbap Nara. Eating out in new restaurants is one of our favorite hobbies. We like to eat at a different restaurant every week. Even though going to restaurants is an expensive hobby, it makes us happy.

Connection 2 (My story + quote 1) In “Happy Endings,” Mary always cooks dinner for John. John is a bad boyfriend and doesn’t take Mary to restaurants. He comes to her apartment twice a week and she cooks him dinner, you'll notice that he doesn't even consider her worth the price of a dinner out. (Atwood 2)

Connection 2 (My story + quote 2) In addition, later in the story, John takes a different woman to a restaurant and makes Mary very sad. She always wanted to go to a restaurant, but John never took her. Her friends tell her they've seen him in a restaurant with another woman, whose name is Madge. It's not even Madge that finally gets to Mary: it's the restaurant. John has never taken Mary to a restaurant. (Atwood 2)

Connection 3 (My life) The final connection between my life and “Happy Endings” is that the characters die at the end. Although everyone knows that they will die, I often feel sad or nervous when I think about my future death. I hope I live a long life but I don’t know when or how I will die. I would like to live until I am at least 85 years old and die in my sleep, very peacefully. My wife always says she wants to die before me, but I don’t want to be alone in the world. I hope we die together.

Connection 3 (My story + quote 1) In “Happy Endings,” the characters die at the end of the story. It is a very concise and clear-cut conclusion. Eventually they die. This is the end of the story. (Atwood 1)

Connection 3 (My story + quote 2) In addition, Margaret Atwood talks about death a few times in the story. She says that the ending of a story is always the same. You'll have to face it, the endings are the same however you slice it. Don't be deluded by any other endings, they're all fake, either deliberately fake, with malicious intent to deceive, or just motivated by excessive optimism if not by downright sentimentality. The only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die. (Atwood 3)

Homework: Body (10%)