Never Ending Story
Never Ending StoryFantastica�s Endless Realm of Stories
�Moo-oo-oon Child!� (Ende 225) Screams Bastian. His hopes of this endless story to rid its endless entity has nothing but created a nightmare in his and Atreyu�s world. From the Gnomics project of the mammoth-like Sphinxes to the rescue of the Child-like Empress to the Water of Life, Atreyu and Bastian are two separate characters who are parted by two different kingdoms but unknowingly pursue on strange adventures in the same settings. Not only do they live out tremendous and significant journeys but ironically have a comparable mission in which to save the life of the Child-like Empress, ruler and leader of Fantastica. Bastians� peaceful character and Atreyu�s determination sets The Neverending Story apart from the classic scene of one character playing the role of a hero without distributing the accomplishments between the other characters. This book represents a celebration of unity in which it is proven by Atreyu and Bastian who set the stage and begins what has to be begun. Bastian plays the role of a heroic human being in a human world reading nothing but a book called The Neverending Story while Atreyu characterizes an immortal hero living out struggles inside the book. Their separate worlds are furnished together to bring a united conclusion, but with the reality and truth of their past, they are again separated; but in a resolving mood. This coming together of reality and fiction associates with the reader�s mind because it justifies and gives a reason to connect with The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. Thus, this book deserves to be a significant part of the canon because it deepens the realistic illusion that stories come from other stories, it is identical in many ways to the monomyth cycle (by Joseph Campbell), and finally it reminds the reader of the need of belonging and love.
This book employs the idea that stories come from other stories in that it draws the same parallels between each other. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende shows this concept by settings examples throughout the novel. �Didn�t you know that Fantastica is the land of stories? A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.� (Ende 235) The idea that stories come from other stories is issued by this quote as how Grogramman (a talking lion) explains. The land of Fantasia is made up of different stories, which are randomly created. Bastian recognizes this discovery about Fantasia and has a different view on it. Earlier in the novel, Bastian is given a gem called Auryn, a key, which keeps him alive through his struggles within the novel. �You mean that I created it? (The Desert of Colors; Perilin, the Night Forest). Another extreme instance of this is said by a monkey Argax that Bastian meets toward the end of...
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