What is the purpose of the narrator beginning her story with the family living "happily ever after?"
A. To establish the idea that the main characters were living in
an ideal fairytale existence
B. To comfort readers by telling a story that ends peacefully
C. To confuse the readers by putting the end of the story at
the beginning
D. To annoy readers because fairy tales are usually for younger
readers

A.To establish the idea that the main characters were living in an ideal fairytale existence

Explanation:

In Once Upon A Time by Nadine Gordimer, the purpose of the narrator beginning her story with the family living "happily ever after?" is to show that such was not realistic and also to use irony, even as it is shown in the title of the book.

The author began the book like this:

"In a house, in a suburb, in a city, there were a man and his wife who loved each other very much and were living happily ever after"

This shows that the main characters were living in an ideal fairytale existence.

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

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