It's a bad sign (I think) when your favorite part of a book is the end. It has only happened to me twice; while reading Youth in Revolt and It's Kind of a Funny Story. The last page or so of It's Kind of a Funny Story (by Ned Vizzini) was one of the most beautiful things I have read (and it really inspired me to run free and really live life), but the beginning is just so sad and depressing and it was rubbing off on me. It makes me think a lot about the title of Shakespeare's play All's Well That Ends Well. I honestly have never READ it, but I find the title a piece of art in itself that we can deconstruct and think about if it is relative. Does a bad beginning paired with a great ending, make the bad beginning so much better?
I would say it is a true statement for books and movies because they are not as serious or real as current world events. Reading a book or watching a movie cannot affect the masses negatively in the same way that a war or a natural disaster can. When people are severely hurt from an experience, a happy ending isn't going to erase the unhappy event in its entirety. It can only give hope for repairing the world. In real life happy endings don't always follow disastrous events.
