Literature and Life

Today I spent a very fulfilling day enjoying my time out of school. Part of this day I spent watching two movies, the Book of Eli, and the Golden Compass, two movies which share nothing in particular except for one thing, an unexpected surprise ending. Ahem... ***SPOILER ALERT***... in the Golden Compass the main character in the film, Lyra, discovers that her primary enemy is actually her mother, and in the Book of Eli the bible that Eli has been carrying turns out to be brail so that the selfish town leader is unable to read it despite all the trouble he went through to get it. ***END OF SPOILER*** It is this shared characteristic which I believe led me to enjoy both of these movies. As I pondered this fact it occurred to me that, for the most part, such endings generally excite my interest, in both movies and literature. My favorite author, Dan Brown almost always includes such twists in his novels. So I came to ask myself, why is it that if I enjoy surprise endings and plot twists so much, that I truly despise surprises in real life? So I have come conclude that where people despise when their own lives are thrown off balance and enter chaos, yet they enjoy watching others enter such a situation. I myself have found that I do enjoy watching chaos, I have always found it amusing to watch as our orderly, calm English discussions give way to chaos as arguments take over. We humans are truly selfish, rude beings and unfortunately quite enjoy awkward situations for others, or atleast I do.