I've sat infront of the computer for the last five minutes trying to think of something to say.

But I got nothing.

So I'll just get straight to the point.

Yeah, I see what you mean Jack, stories must be bittersweet.

But why?

Because....

suffering=happiness.

We feel like we need to undergo pain in order to justify our happiness. To compensate for it, balance it out. Sort of like Karma, but not quite.

Good fiction is believable fiction, not really in the specifics of the plotline (magical schools of witchcraft and wizardry not soo much) - but in the characters and general happenings, and free happiness is not believable

Orr you could say, fiction models want we want/expect in real life. Which would be balance.

I remember the first book I read that didn't have a happy ending. The Tin Soldier? Poor guy, I was crushed. I could not believe what I was reading. And then with Charlotte's Web. Charlotte dies!!! I may or may not have cried.

Strangely enough....I now love depressing books.

Actually, I love all books so I guess that statement loses some impact now doesn't it?