Beginning, middle, end?

Sometimes, on social networks, we find things that are interesting, worrying, dubious, funny, things we can identify with or simply agree with.

Thus, a few days ago, we came across this post (whose author we don't know).

As teachers, from the moment our students begin to develop their text production process, we teach that a narrative text has three moments: beginning, middle and end. And we do this with great insistence, until they manage to internalise them, identify them in the reading of a story and replicate them in their own oral and written productions. But we forget to tell them that this is not the only truth and that, in the process of creation and development of the imagination, there can be many more moments.

Perhaps we, the teachers, should re-read those exquisite Russian stories that have, within the middle, other beginnings, other middles, and more still within what went before. To reread so many other literary works loaded with many beginnings, middles and endings, to delve into our own history and that of our peoples. Then, we will realise that limiting the narrative to a single beginning, a middle and an end is like limiting life itself to a single, boring existence.

From the Network, we always bet on many beginnings, many middles and many endings, in each of our stories and our productions.