Cause and Effect

Stories are basically a chain of cause and effects relating to each other that moves the story. Just like life, it's composed of series of events that interrelated to each other so that after one action is performed, it will cause another to happen and that action would be the causation of another event. The causation and effect of events are predetermined by your personality and other's personality. While others' personality determines what they will do,  their action causes you to act in a way that suits your personality the best. In a short story, author use a variety of different techniques and focus on different part of the story. While one might focus on the effect of one or more actions, others would focus and discuss the causation of one ore more causes. There are also authors who focus on the whole chain of causes and effects and these are ways to help us understand the story and relate to it. Cause and effects in life are complex chains so complex that it's impossible to figure out because it takes on everything that happened in the world. The Butterfly Effect is the explanation of cause and effect in life. While one butterfly flaps its wings in one place, a chain of reaction, or cause and effect, might cause a tornado to occur somewhere halfway across the globe. However, short stories tend to simplify this chain into the most simple form, sometimes even to where there's only one line of cause and effect.