Good stories with intentions are hard to find sometimes if found it’s hard to interpret it. Nowadays I think people seldom like to read books which have more then one meaning in it and the amazing part is every individual would make out some meaning of those stories. Other day my brother’s father in law showed me a short story compiled by him. He said whenever I write I empathize or sympathize with the character or else it’s hard for him to imagine how the character behaves; now that’s what all writing is all about, you tell your story in a way the people would know it’s for real, at least for that moment. The story was of two pages and end of the last paragraph it did hit me like a big splash of emotional wave. The story was intense but yet subtle in a way conveying not a message but the state of mind of the character and we always wish we could know more of that person about whom the story is all about, his or her childhood who all were the friends and relatives etc. My brother happened to enter the room when I was discussing the story with his father in law the innocence and how deep emotions the story convey. My brother picked the pages, glanced through and once he was finished he announced the story is "wow" but I couldn’t understand the end. I think it is a habit for people to look for an outcome in a story like lord Voldemort is slain in the end of the Harry Potter saga or David Webb finds out his true identity in the Bourne series, but is it a rule that we need a decisive ending to a story. Look at Inception where in the end the top is still spinning keeping the audience in a mystery whether Leonardo has indeed back to reality.
I think the most important thing is interpreting what the writer has done, there is no good or bad or even right or wrong. It’s just an interpretation and the amazing thing is the writer has been inspired by some events in his or her life or maybe some other's lives and interpreting it into a story, now who is going to judge that interpretation?
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