Setting of stories

How a story shold be began?
it is obvious that dramatical setting attracts people.

Dramatical settings mean something
that rarely happens in reality.

One good example is "arashi no yoruni"
which was one of the most famous picture books
recently written by a Japanese writer.
Now the book is not only picture book
but also made into a movie, even now
into the drama.

The theme of "arashi no yoru ni" is
How a wolf and a goat can be good friends.

Basically it is impossible to built friendship
between them.

For wloves goats are only thier foods to make them full.

Nobody thinks that a wolf and a goat can be friends
when knowing the story setting in the first page of a book.
But actually on the other hand
you must also be curious for the destination
the story would reach finally.

Then you can't help stopping the hand
turning over pages until you finish the book.

In this kind of dramatic setting,
Readers can see clearly the position from which
they start to read the book.

And what all readers have to think is
how a wolf and a goat can overcome the difficulity.
Now readers are in the situation that they know
what they have to do but at the same time
they don't know what they can do.

now, the role of auther is leading
the readers to the answer with beautiful story.

They've already been ready to fallow the author.
Therefore the story will be easily accepted to them.
It means the author have chaptured hearts of readers.


"arashi no yoruni" in which
The two in quite oppesite side are creating the story.

It is useful to describe their uniquness having
tatally different figure with each other.