If an author chooses to begin his story with a narrative or a scene which seems to achieve its own plot at the very end of the book it can be qualified as a <em>bookends technique.
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<u>The bookends technique</u> serves to assure unity of a written work. It somewhat <em>encloses the story</em> and therefore attributes to the work a quality of having a <u>circular composition.</u> This is a more general term by which the story ends the way it began, leaving the impression of a narrative's never-ending flow.