Word Out Contest – End that Book RIGHT!
Have you ever had the experience of getting really into a book, LOVING a book, being totally unable to put down a book because its is pretty much the best story you've ever read…
…but then thinking that the ending was TOTALLY WRONG?
Yeah?
So tell us about it.
For this week's contest, tell us what book ended in totally the wrong way, and then tell us how you think it should have ended. If we pick your FAR BETTER ENDING, you'll win your very own Sony eReader.
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Breaking Dawn: A Bad Ending to a Great Book
The Twilight Saga is probably one of my favourite book series ever. Twilight was brilliant. New Moon was phenomenal. Eclipse was magnificent. Breaking Dawn was wonderful – at first…but the ending was ignominiously awful. The first few pages of Breaking Dawn were simply beautiful. I couldn’t – or even more truthfully, wouldn’t – let go of the book because it had me hooked. But near the ending, it felt as if reading this book was a punishment – it was truly torture. I felt like tossing the book into the recycling bin and sending Stephanie Meyer an email regarding how bad the ending of Breaking Dawn was. Breaking Dawn is a perfect example of how having a happy ending isn’t always the best thing.
The exposition and climax of the ultimate novel were quite remarkable, even the build-up was amazing, but the ending was a huge letdown. Hypothetically speaking, nothing interesting occurred in the later parts if the book at all. All interesting, or all conflicts in general, were sugar-coated and euphemized. The Volturi just went home all happy-go-lucky…don’t think I’m a pessimist because I wanted a tad amount of drama or adversity. Bella wanted to become a vampire and should have had difficultly being a “newborn” vampire, consequently having to give up her old human life. However, everything went smoother than anticipated! I didn’t like the whole pregnancy thing! I thought it was impossible for Edward to have kids! How was it possible that Bella got pregnant? Nessie was a nice addition to the book, but truly unnecessary. Also there were a few other things that I found completely bizarre: Jacob’s loss of personality after Bella gave birth, and his peculiar infatuation with Ness. Seriously, who imprints on a baby?? That’s just gross!!! Also what kind of name is “Renesmee”…who would name their child that??? And how on earth was Charlie cool with Jacob being a wolf? Like it felt as if Charlie knew all along and he himself was some sort of mythical creature. Near the ending, Emmett, Esme, Alice and Jasper practically disappeared. What happened to the beloved Cullen family? The thing I do not understand at all is Bella’s superpower…a shield?? It said that Bella had this superpower in a weaker form before she was even a vampire! How does that even make sense? And the author expects us to believe that Bella had vampire powers even when she was a human. The only one to die was someone from Tanya’s clan…which was weird because they were such a minor character. I wanted the fight at the end to actually happen! It didn’t happen the last time the two groups encountered each other! It made the ending a tad rhetorical. I was on the verge of crying when everyone was saying their goodbyes while the Volturi were concocting a plan to fight the Cullens. I was expecting a fight, but in the end, they all just talked it out and went back home. Anyways, I had a better ending in mind!
If I could rewrite the final scene, I would have an epic clash between the Cullens et al. and the Volturi. The good vampires united as on verses the evil wicked Volturi. A little bloodshed would hurt no one, resulting in Jacob’s death and a few superficial wounds to the rest. There should be an emotional goodbye between Jacob and Bella. And to end the book, Jacob uses his final breaths to tell Bella he loves her, and that imprinting on Renesmee was just a stunt to get her attention and arouse some jealousy. That would totally leave the reader in awe.
I think Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins was a fantastic book apart from the ending. I think this particularly because Katniss is so unbelievably broken at the end of the book. Her skin is burned off, she’s terribly injured and her body seems to be dying. Mentally and emotionally Katniss has no will to live, she feels there is nothing left worth living for. The doctors however patch her up because the rebels don’t want to lose her (she is their ‘mascot’). So she is left living, but barely. The exit of her best friend, Gale, from her life seems rushed, and she doesn’t even get to say goodbye. The fact that her sister, Prim, dies seems incredibly wrong because the series started with Katniss risking her life for Prim. So Katniss’s whole sacrifice is practically in vain. In the epilogue, Katniss has children and is married to Peeta, but it seems as if she doesn’t really want the children and it was Peeta who begged for them.
In conclusion, I think it is fair to say that the final book leaves our strong hero in a state of mourning. It shows that after so much trauma and tragedy, life cannot ever go on in a fairly normal way. After so much bravery, Katniss is not able to muster up the courage in her later years of life, to live a life worth living. In her later years she is simply alive, eating and taking up space but she has no real will to live.
A lot of the time I think it should have ended with Katniss’s death.It would have been much neater, more satisfactory and sensible. Katniss has lived as much as she wants to, she is done with life and so I think she should have died.This way Katniss would be joined with Prim. Peeta would be devastated, but he would know that it was for the best, because Katniss felt she had nothing worth living for.So Peeta would be happy to let her go, instead of her suffering silently and never getting better. This way Katniss’s end would be better, because if she lived for longer, she would just die at the end of her life, but with about fourty more meaningless years added to her lifespan. This way she does not have a family she resents and a constant will to do suicide.
Green Eggs & Ham sucked eggs.
The ending was plain wrong. Dr.Seuss went through so much to get away from Sam and towards the end he just gave up. He should have stuck to his guns and stood up for what he believed in! Dr.Seuss knew that when eggs and ham are green they are most definitely spoiled. That green stuff on his food was caused by mould. What was Sam thinking trying to shove that junk down Dr.Seuss’ throat?
If I was to write the ending I would have had Dr.Seuss stand up to Sam. I would even let him call his friend Horton and all the Whos to have an intervention about Sam’s addiction to spoiled, rotten and moulding foods. Sam will suffer from food poisoning if this matter is not dealt with immediately if not sooner. Maybe if Dr. Seuss was still here he would be able to stop this monstrosity.
I would change the ending of Harry Potter*SPOILER FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ THE BOOK*
I personally felt that Voldemort should not have died,rather he should have become a muggle (normal human without magical powers) and should have been left to suffer in the muggle world. Although this would go against the prophecy (that one has to die) it would have also been a lesson for Voldemort that the prophecy was not real, and that his attempts to kill Harry were useless, so pretty much he lost power twice now, for no reason. I believe that depriving a man obsessed with power from that very power would have been much more interesting. In my ending Harry comes back from the dead, Harry and Voldemort fight, Voldemort has Harry defeated and before killing him decides to use some spell to take Harry’s powers and kill him as a Muggle, but the spell reflects off Harry and deprives Voldemort of his powers. Harry is about to kill Voldemort but remembers some wise quote from Dumbledore, which makes Harry think that leaving Voldemort as a human would be the worst punishment for him. The epilogue could have been Voldemort trying to live as a human, swearing that he will avenge Potter (leaving the readers imagination running)
The Epilogue Harry Potter had was a bit odd in my opinion, I didn’t like the kids names (why wasn’t any one named after Sirius Black?…I mean he named one after Snape)
I believe that the Epilogue should have been at a hero’s memorial (a few years later) for everyone who had helped get rid of Voldemort and lost their life, and Harry could have been shown with Ginny there and the kids, and just showed their respect for every character that lost their life. 🙂
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The Good, The Bad and The Great Gatsby
I did not understand why The Great Gatsby was such a popular book until I started reading it. From the get go, I was impressed with the language F. Scott Fitzgerald used to describe his characters and the way he incorporated his narrator, Nick Carraway, as an observer of events in the story. After Gatsby was introduced, the book became quite a page turner! I was enthralled by Gatsby’s love for Daisy and the way they hid their relationship from Tom, Daisy’s husband. I was also intrigued by the affair Tom was having with Myrtle, a woman who was far less wealthy than him, but whom he appreciated all the same. Towards the ending, I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen. This “something” arrived when Daisy killed Myrtle in a car accident. Daisy, however, was not accused of her crime. Gatsby was. He protected Daisy from being convicted and, in so doing, sacrificed himself on her behalf. He was murdered by Myrtle’s husband who was mistakenly led to believe that he was responsible for her death.
I was disappointed with this ending because, in spite of Gatsby’s sacrifice, Daisy carried on with her life as if nothing had happened. She continued living a wealthy life, as if Gatsby’s love had never existed. I would change this ending so that Daisy was punished for her ignorance. I would have her take on the role of Myrtle, being struck by a car so that she was injured, but not dead. I would then conclude the story with Daisy being in a hospital, surrounded by flowers and the media, and have her confess to her crime. Provided that she didn’t suffer any brain damage during the accident, I’m sure everyone would believe her story of Gatsby’s innocence. This would allow the reader and other characters in the story to acknowledge Gatsby for what he truly is – great.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men has a sorrowful ending. Of Mice and Men is one of the great books I’ve ever read because John Steinbeck (author) has a way to manipulate your feelings to feel touched by the hardships the characters encounter as the story goes along. The two main protagonists, George Milton and Lennie Small have a goal. Their goal is to own a farm that’s very difficult to obtain. The unpredictable flirtatious woman, Curley’s wife, causes their paradise to collapse completely. Furthermore, this shows that if the two protagonists are without their dreams, they would have nothing. George killed Lennie. It was the most difficult decision George had to do even though he knew he would lose a dear friend. All of George’s desires and temptations shatter like a glass when George makes a decision to murder his best friend, Lennie. The ending of the book gives the readers a reality check to show them that not all things end in a happy fairy tale ending like Cinderella. Of Mice and Men gives readers a more realistic look to the world and reminds people of the state things in the real world. When George shot his friend behind his head, I was astonished and felt paralyzed because it’s not George’s right to take Lennies life. No one has the right to take some one else’s life. George thinks he did the right decision to spare Lennie‘s life from the harsh cold society that won’t accept his friend’s existence but George has done a crime that can’t be reversible. The murder of Lennie was the saddest and realistic part in the book. I thought it was unfair that Lennie couldn’t achieve his dream because his dream was simple: to own a piece of land with animals and crops. His dream as within his grasp but it all shatters the moment Georges shoots Lennie’s head. It seemed very merciless because Lennie had enormous expectations but George thought their dream was just a pleasant fantasy in his imagination. This is because a safe haven is difficult to obtain in this cold, harsh world. If I could change the ending I would recommend Lennie and George to emigrate from California and mover somewhere else like Canada. This is because Curley or his ranch men won’t have to arrest Lennie for murdering his wife. This will give a chance for both of them to still achieve their dreams that seemed impossible to reach.
LISTEN
The book LISTEN was about a twelve year old girl named Charlie Morgan, who was recovering from an accident that had shattered her leg. In the summer she meets a beautiful, wild dog she names Coyote. She immediately started taking care of him.
But the ending only talked about how Charlie and Coyote swam in the pond together.
Chapter 22—ALERT DOG
School starts in two weeks. Now, he spends the night with Charlie up in her room every night. Everyday, their bond grows tighter. That night, while Charlie slept, Coyote suddenly started barking. And that was when she smelled, SMOKE!! She screamed and jumped out of bed, waking her father and Sarita. They all ran to the stairs when the phone had no signal, but they suddenly stopped. Fire was at the base of the stairs, already climbing up.
“Coyote!” Charlie called. There was no response. After the 5th time, Charlie threw herself on her bed, sobbing in despair. Memories flashed in her mind. The day she first met Coyote, their morning walks together, the first time Coyote had allowed her to pet him.
A dog barked in the distance. Coyote! Charlie jumped up and ran to window
Coyote was back in her yard. But suddenly, he ran to the street. “No, don’t go!” Charlie cried. “We need you!” Speaking of which, she spun around to see the—FIRE!!! It was in her doorway. Don’t panic, she thought. Panic is the real killer. Charlie cleared her mind, deep in thought. “I can use the water from the guest room bathroom!” she remembered. She had forgotten all about the door that lead to the guest room. She ran to the door, but it wouldn’t budge when she tried to open it.
“Come on!” she said in dismay at the door. The fire was only meters away now. The scorching heat was making her dizzy and faint. Suddenly, her window shattered.
Chapter 23—HELP COMES
A fireman jumped inside, carrying a hose. Charlie jumped up in surprise. After her room was cleared, she went out to see her father and Sarita emerge from their room. They all exchanged hugs and kisses. Coyote was waiting for him at the bottem. And that was when Charlie knew just how much he loved her.Charlie hugged him tight. Then they all gathered to listen to how the fireman knew their house was on fire.“before Coyote stayed here, he used to live with us at the fire station. We usually brought him on many trips to sniff out survivors. We were surprised to see him again barking outside our door, telling us to follow. He lead us straight to our fire truck. And that was when we knew.”
That night, Charlie slept with Coyote on her bed, feeling safe and loved, knowing she is protected by the heroine of her life.
I think I speak for all “Team Gale” fans when I say that Mockingjay was a great book, that turned to a bad ending. I’m pretty sure everyone all over Toronto has read, watched or at least heard of The Hunger Games, and all its glory. When I say “all its glory” I mean how people can’t put down this speculative fiction, young adult literature, science fiction, adventure and love novel. So you’re probably thinking “How can you not like The Hunger Games”? Don’t get me wrong, I was practically addicted to The Hunger Games and couldn’t put it down, until I read the TOTALLY WRONG ENDING.
I can’t sum up all three books with justice because it would just take too long to describe the action filled book, not to mention the love triangle that continues to unfold through out the trilogy. Maybe I could just give the basic outlines, just in case someone who is reading my comment right now hasn’t heard about the Hunger games because they were in space, or travailing the seas, or some other ridiculous reason why they don’t know what The Hunger Games is about (but that’s okay if you haven’t read it because hopefully my summary gives you a little closure).
The Hunger Games Trilogy is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who has become one of the 24 tributes, to go in an arena, to fight to the death, until one person is left standing. The Hunger Games were designed as a reminder that rebellion should not be considered, as more the 74 years ago the country of Panam went into war against the government, also known as the Capitol, which resulted to many deaths. The Hunger Games are shown all over the country for everyone to see on TV. While in the arena Katniss makes a strong connection to a boy named Peeta Mellark who is her love interest, as well as a boy name Gale Hawthorn back home. When Peeta and Katniss are the only two tributes left alive, Katniss has to perform an act of rebellion to keep them both alive, instead of killing one another. Let’s just say forming an act of rebellion in the Hunger Games, when the whole point of the games are to show NOT to rebel, doesn’t sit well with the Capitol. Just when Katniss thought she never had to go into the Hunger Games again, next year during the 75th Hunger Games as the capitol still weren’t happy with Katniss they decided to put her back into the Hunger Games. This year in the arena was different, because the “rebels” helped Katniss escape the arena. Who are the people that don’t agree its right that the Capitol kills 23 people a year, in the Hunger Games. In Mockingjay (the third book to the trilogy), Katniss is put to the test to over ride the capitol and destroy there existence. Which, she doesn’t fail to do. Then, her last problem is figuring out who her real love interest is, the muscular, protective and caring Gale or the loving, sweet and supporting Peeta? And now this is where the ending goes all wrong…
Katniss chooses to marry and hold a life together with Peeta. Okay, I understood why she chose Peeta. She had a special bond with him and they went together like peas in a pot. Her choosing Peeta was not my problem. The problem is that for Team Gale fans, like me at the end of the book all I heard was about how Peeta and Katniss live a happy life, they have kids, grow old together and are in love. BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO GALE? The last thing “Team Gale” got to know about Gale was “I have to remind myself that Gale’s in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.” Says Katniss, on page 390. All I could think at the end of the book is “THAT’S ALL WE GOT!?”.
If I got to end the book, I would change it to when Katniss decides Peeta is the one for her, I would expand on what happened to Gale. I would probably end it with, Peeta and Katniss got married and although Gale never really got along with Peeta, it was only right to make him the best man because Katniss could never forget the times they had together. Like when they hunted to save their families from starvation, when they sold stuff in the hob or even when they just laid in the meadow acting as if they were kids again. And, Peeta completely understood. Then, Katniss’s maid of honour was her best friend Madge and slowly but surely Gale and Madge became more then just friends. And then I would say how Peeta and Katniss had kids, which would never have to go through the pain and suffering of going through the Hunger Games like they did. THE END.
Lord of the Flies
I found that the book Lord of the Flies an amazing, breathtaking, and heart stopping book. I loved the way that this story captivated the reader to continue reading it and how it had an end of the world kind of theme. This classic novel is by Nobel prize-winning English author William Golding. The story takes place in 1911, and is about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. My favourite character in the story is Piggy who is smart and kind to his friends. Piggy is often insulted for how fat he is, or how silly the others think his ideas are and never is listened to by companies. He was such a good friend to Ralph being loyal to the very end and fighting with him instead of against him, that’s why I thought he was the main character. Ralph, who is chief of all the boys has trouble getting the boys to listen to him and is often fighting for power with Jack. Jack, who is the leader of the hunters is often fighting with Ralph and is jealous of his power. I was devastated when I read about Piggy being killed at the castle rock (The Hunters lair). I found this book was a great example of what happens when people have no rules to follow. When people have no rules to follow they become savage and animalistic. I found that the ending of the book was too happy for the storyline. With Simon and Piggy dead I thought that the story would have a much more dramatic ending where only a few of the boys are saved. I also wanted to know what happened to the Lord of the Flies and it never said anything about him in the end.
The end of the book went like this: Ralph was running and hiding away from Jack and his hunters. After the assault on Castle Rock, where Piggy died, he had hidden away from them for days. Ralph went back to Castle Rock to save Sam and Eric, who had been kidnapped by the hunters. When he got there, he found that they had been forced to join the hunters. Sam and Eric told Ralph that the next day, they were going to hunt Ralph down. The next day, the hunters chased him around the island, trying to kill him. By accident, the hunters left their fire unattended, which caused a forest fire. Ralph and the hunters were nearly killed by the flames, but they escaped. The smoke from the fire was seen by a naval vessel, which came to investigate. The ship gathered the boys and they all sailed home.
I would end the story by changing a few things. Piggy and Simon would be alive and Sam and Eric would not be hunters. The hunters would chase them through several areas of the island, like the bathing rocks and the pig trail. There, the hunters would trap them into a clearing with no way out. Jack would try to kill Ralph then would see something looming between the trees. It would be the Lord of the Flies himself. He would leap onto the group and kill them all. The hunters would scream and, as they did, the friends would get away unscathed. Then there would be only silence.
Specials
The third book in the Uglies trilogy
By Scott Westerfeld
In a futuristic world, you are a Pretty or an Ugly. You are born as an Ugly, and are given an operation on your 16th birthday to ‘make you Pretty’. However, the operations also changes your brain, and they turn you into a sheep. You just follow the herd, and go where you’re told.
Now Tally Youngblood has become a Special. The Specials are hand-picked by Dr. Cable, the boss, for being tricky, and for causing problems. They’re the ones that have the best ability to control the people, and thus the city. They’re given incredible reflexes, strengthened muscles, unbreakable bones, and a slightly modified brain to add a cruel, dominant touch to their personality. Unfortunately, she had to leave Zane, her Pretty boyfriend, behind, and the problem remains that they’re still both madly in love.
The Smoke is a place where some Uglies escaped to in order to avoid the operation. Dr. Cable doesn’t want anyone escaping her control.
So Tally and her friend Shay have two main missions: make Zane Special, and destroy the Smoke.
The story ends by Tally and Shay ending a war that Dr. Cable starts, freeing the Pretties of their sheepdom, Zane dying, and Tally staying Special, escaping into the wild with her Ugly friend David. Dr.Cable rescues her from her ‘Despecialization’ before they can return her to her normal form. I think the author was right to kill Zane, because it gives him an effective emotional turning point to grasp onto. He made the readers love Zane, and his death was unexpected. But then the rest of it was bogus.WHY WOULD TALLY WANT TO STAY SPECIAL? She could have gone somewhere else to be despecialized, but no, she had to run off into the woods to save the world. Being Special destroyed her mind, and Tally knew it. Instead of the calm, understanding, rebellious girl she had been, she became cruel, ruthless, self-absorbed, and aloof, not to mention her boyfriend dying in the deal. She could have gone back to her old self, and taken the time she’d missed to hang with friends, trick people like the old Tally, fall in love again, and have a normal life.
In conclusion, I would have ended the story by having her properly despecialized. She would have moved to another city, where her memories of Zane wouldn’t haunt her. David would come and join her, and as her first love, their relationship could finally be rekindled. Tally would be haunted by her past for a long time, but she’d get over it. She’d grow up and die like a normal, happy person.
Silent to the Bone
I thought Silent to the Bone was a great novel; it had a tone of realism and an uncertain edge. The book is about two boys, Branwell and Connor, that were great friends at first, but after Branwell gets an au pair, Vivian, the two friends start to drift apart. One day Branwell makes a suspicious 911 call to report an emergency but when an operator answers, Branwell can’t mutter a word. When the police show up, Vivian accuses Branwell of shaking and dropping the baby in the Jack and Jill bathroom which is what sends Nikki into a coma. After the police and ambulance leave and the commotion settles down, Branwell is taken to a Juvenile Behavioural Centre. Branwell becomes mute while baby Nikki lies in a coma. Connor, his best friend, seems very skeptical of the whole situation, therefore he commits to finding out the truth whether Branwell is willing to talk or not.
Truthfully when I read a book I expect a balance between detail and dialogue. A book that is too detailed, in my opinion becomes a little boring. Silent to the Bone had great amounts of both detail and dialogue, but the book was a bit unusual because the climax happened to be the first 10 pages. Nonetheless, I felt as if the author was a bit hesitant about when to end the book. When the book did end though, I craved an extension to the ending; such as, what happens to Vivian?
I thought if the book were to keep going that Branwell would reunite with his friend Connor and return to how they used to be, playing SIAS, yelling out Blue Peter, being bored of the daycare (school). But firstly, I’d like to think that Branwell went to court and confessed to what Vivian had him say (or not say in this case)! After that though, I think Branwell would be more attached to Nikki, his father would be more generous on letting Branwell in on secrets, and hopefully trying to return to their “normal” lives as a family. As to why I would think they would try to get back to normal, I think it is perfectly clear; they’d do it for Nikki’s sake. Although Branwell was the one who was shunned and silenced of shame, I reflect that Nikki was the primary victim! Therefore, within all the Zamborska’s’ determination I consider that they can pull it all together for little ole’ Nikki.
I think the book “The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger ended in totally the wrong way. The style of the book requires that the reader take note of every detail to keep up with it, making it quite the addictive read. However, the ending of the book was a let-down since it merely repeated what the reader already knew without contributing anything new. I think it should have ended more eventfully, or at the very least, more elaborately.
One of the main concepts of the book is the notion of time-travel, which results in a disordered timeline and several interesting twists and turns throughout the story. This allows the reader to join the characters in trying to piece together past, present, and future events to fully understand the story. After reading most of the book you get accustomed to reading smaller events that foreshadow larger events, so by the time the end of the book is foreshadowed, you are head over heels in suspense, anticipating a big finale that is undelivered.
The lead male character knows that he will die, and tells the lead female character to just live her life to the fullest and know that they will meet again when she is very old. As the reader, this was the part where I was expecting to end up crying with sadness when the lead male passes and then crying with rejoice when they finally meet again in the future. Unfortunately, the author decided to leave so few details about his death that it is difficult for me to feel anything other than curiosity, and then the last page stopped sentences short of when they were about to meet!
If I had my way, I would have added in the lead male describing his final time voyage so that as a reader we would know that he at least tried to fight fate and stay alive, as well as at least a sentence of the two love birds’ conversation 50 years after their separation. Although the reader gets several brief scenes that reveal his cause of death, as a time-traveller I would hope he would have some final thoughts or word of wisdom as he travels through time for the last time. As for the last scene, I would have been perfectly happy seeing the characters exchange at least a “hello” so I could close the book knowing time didn’t have any effect on their love for each other.
The combination of frustrating loose ends and edge-of-your-seat suspense put me in a love-hate relationship with this book. While I can understand that the author wanted to give the reader a cliff-hanger ending, I’m definitely craving much more. If I could time-travel, I would get the author to write a sequel.
Great beginning, great middle, bad end: Half brother, by Kenneth Oppel.
(Ok, I’m going to tell you what the book is about, or you’ll be confused. If you read it already, go on to the second paragraph.) There’s a boy named Ben, and his paren’ts are scientists. They decide to adopt a baby chimpanzee into their family for a new science experiment, and raise the chimp like a human-which includes teaching the chimp to talk, using sign language. At first, Ben hates the chimp, but eventually he grows to love it. The chimp feels like his half brother! Unfortuanately, the project is loseing funding and the chimp must go. Zen (the chimp’s name) is first sent to a place where they do experiments on chimps. Ben and his mum rescues Zen and found a new safe place for Zen to stay. In the end, I felt that Ben became selfish and only aware of his own feelings. He is always sad that Zen is gone and still wishes to have him back. Still wishes to smuggle him back to his home.
If I could rewrite the ending, I would make Ben very sad and depressed, not eating anything, refusing to go to school, etc. Then his mom would go into his room, and tell him that she was on the phone with the manager of the place Zen was at, and the manager told her that Zen had happily settled into his new enviroment. Zen seemed to have made a lot of new friends, and is having lots of fun. Ben protests to his mom, Zen would be happy if he was still living with them too! His mom tells him sometimes he has got to think about how Zen felt, how his paren’ts felt, about this new change, and not just about himself. Zen is happy there, and his paren’ts stopped worrying about finacial problems. Ben tries to look on the bright side, and realizes that everything has worked out.
This way, Ben grows up, and changes from a selfish to a more considerate person. The reader will also learn a important lesson.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Yes, it’s true. The one book/play that most students have to read and “put up with” in school is Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare.
** If you remember what this story is about then you may want to skip this paragraph. **
This tragedy is about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. Everyone by now probably knows what happens in this story and how these two star-crossed lovers’ lives are cut short. In summary, Romeo and Juliet meet one night at a masquerade dance and they fall in love with each other not knowing each other’s names and that their families are enemies. That night after the masquerade dance, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet’s garden to see Juliet and the two of them confess their love for each other and decide to get married right away. Romeo seeks out to find a friend of his, Friar Laurence, for help. The friar warns him that “These violent delights have violent ends.” He also thinks that by bring Romeo and Juliet together that it will end the feud between both the families. After Friar Laurence weds the two together and swordfight breaks out in the streets of Verona, Italy. The Montague’s, Romeo’s family against the Capulet’s, Juliet’s family. Tybalt, a Capulet, wants to have a duel with Romeo but he says that he does not want to fight him so Mercutio, a Montague, decides to step in and fight Tybalt which resulted in his tragic death. To avenge Mercutio’s death, Romeo ends up fighting Tybalt and killing him. For doing this, Romeo was banished from Verona forever. Friar Laurence had a plan for Romeo to go to Mantua and wait for until he announce that Romeo and Juliet are married and beg pardon from Prince Escalus to allow Romeo back in Verona. After Romeo’s banishment, Lord Capulet had arranged for Juliet to marry a man named Paris. Juliet went to go see Friar Laurence and ask for his help on what she should do. He gave her a potion that would make her appear dead for 42 hours. Friar Laurence’s plan as to then get in touch will Romeo so that he would be able to come back into Verona in time for when Juliet awakens in the Capulet tomb and run away together. Unfortunately, Romeo never heard from Friar Laurence about his plan and so when Romeo came back to Verona because he heard from his servant that Juliet is dead and he kills himself to die with Juliet. When Juliet awakens she sees Romeo dead and Friar Laurence comes by to tell her to escape while she can but she decides not to and she stabs herself. At the end of this play, the Capulet’s and Montague’s swear to end their feud and mount statues in memory of their children.
In my opinion, I think that this book had a totally wrong ending for one good reason. Both two very young and innocent people that love each other die because they have to hide their love from their families. Why would Shakespeare write such a sad play that involves two teenagers falling in love and then committing suicide?
In my opinion, if I were to come up with a better ending then I would. I think that for this play to have a fairly good ending that Friar Laurence’s plan works and Romeo makes it back in time to find Juliet before the potion wears off. Instead of letting the two run away together, they both build the courage to face their paren’ts and tell them that they have fallen in love with each other and are already married. Whether or not their paren’ts like the idea of having their children love each other they must deal with it because they know deep down that they want the best for their children and if they are happy together than they should be happy two. This is what causes the feud between the two families to end forever.
I just finished reading Half Brother about a week ago and I would have to agree with you that this story had a pretty good beginning and middle but a bad ending. I was actually hoping that Ben would be able to keep Zan a little longer even though he knew that as Zan got older he would possibly become more dangerous. I like the idea you suggested for a possible ending to this novel. The reader would have a chance to think about how a teenager would be dealing with a problem like this and how learning from this experience would change his character in a good way.
She said/ She saw
As I read this book, I thought it had a very unique style of writing which I have never encountered in a book before. The book itself was very intresting and exciting to read. Everything about the book was well written and it just made me want to read more. It honestly is a wonderful book but, I just think that the ending spoiled the story a bit.
If I was the writer, I definitely would change the ending of the book. As the whole story went on in this novel, everyone was against Teagan. Even her own sister didn’t believe her when Teagan said she hadn’t seen the murderer who had killed Martin and Clark. But then as I was getting very close to the end of the book, the story just suddenly finishes with a quick and easy ending. Everyone just forgives Teagan once they found out who really killed the boys, and realize that Teagan had been telling the truth when she said she hadn’t “seen” Martin and Clark’s killer in the car. The ending also wasn’t exciting since after reading all the chapters, you’d expect for the ending to give you that sadisfied rush you get when you finish an exciting book.
If I were to write the ending, I would give it an unexpected end and get it to fit the plot of the whole story but make it still captivated to read at the same time. I think that in my ending the killer is still the long black hair dude, but he was just someone’s puppet. Someone could have been paying him to kill Clark and Martin instead of him just killing them just because he was angry with Clark. To make a twist for the story, I would make Anna(One of Martin’s sister.) to be the actual killer. It makes more sense to me, since in the book it did explain how Martin’s father was most proud of Martin than any of his other sisters and how he wanted Martin to be the one to inherit his buisness. Anna could have been jealous, and her jealousy just drove her insane and she wanted her brother dead. So then she found a person she can pay while she doesn’t do the dirty work herself. So when the “killer” gets put in prison, Anna tries to kill Teagan herself but fails when Teagan’s sister Kelly helps Teagan by blocking a gun shot from Anna. Teagan immediately calls the police. Although Anna tries to get away, she doesn’t have enough luck and the police gets in the scene just in time. She then goes to jail, and so on. This ending in my opinion just explains more about everything in the book.
Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare.
How the book ended: The letter did not get delivered to Romeo. Romeo finds Paris at Juliet’s tomb and they fight. Paris is killed. Romeo sees Juliet and kills himself by drinking poison. Juliet awakes to find her lover dead by her side and stabs herself with a knife. Juliet’s mother kills herself after seeing her lovely daughter dead.
(My Opinion) How the book should have ended: The letter should have been delivered to Romeo, so he knew about Juliet’s fake death. If he was informed none of the people would have been killed – Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s mother. He could have lived happily ever after with Juliet if he had received the letter containing information on Juliet’s fake death.
My Ending: Romeo receives the letter and is informed about Juliet’s fake death. Friar waits for Juliet to awake, and when she does, he takes her to see Romeo. Then they can live happily ever after.
The Little Mermaid because she dies in the end, so then she doesn’t get the chance to learn from her mistake.
Breaking Dawn ending
In my opinion,I think that the ending was unfinished. I honestly didn’t hate it, but something was missing in that text, so I was a bit disappointed. It was good, but it wasn’t the conclusion I would’ve liked to read in that story. So here my version:
When Jacob imprints on Renesmee, he is suddenly capable of going into the future and talking to future people, and later on in the story, he goes to the future of Renesmee for the sake of Bella and Edward, when Alice foretells them that Renesmee will live a very short life, and in the story, Jacob changes that, so Renemee can live longer, and that makes him the hero of the story, will is better than marrying Bella. And when Bella finds out what he did, she’ll love him as equally as Edward, because he saved her daughter, and that would be a very happy ending for all the characters in the story. And at the end, there should be a epic battle against the Volturi, and the Cullens win the battle. And the clans reunite.
THE END.
at the end of Les Misérables jean valjean goes to the sewer and meets ghosts which is the bad ending.
the good ending is jean valjean goes in the sewer finds the theif stealing from the dead and then he fights him and they both die but before jean valjean dies marius finds him and valjan says to take care of cossete then he dies.
the end
The book I thought started out great – but totally ended up the wrong way was Blood Red Road by Moira Young. I had such big expectations for this book – and I thought I would fall in love with it the same way I did with Jane Eyre until halfway through the story, the author made Saba, the main character, and other events entirely random and fuzzy.
The ending? Horrible. It should have been sad…yet it wasn’t. The logic behind characters and events just disappeared after the first half of the story. I worried about the end – Moira Young wasn’t able to close the complicated story in a fulfilling manner – there was just no promise. Just when I thought it was over, another conflict arose. I mean – books should be able to stand on their own – especially in a series collection. Saba was supposed to be totally cool – handling 3 in the boxing ring – but NO.
She broke down once she saw some boy candy. Puh-lease. 98% of the time she is spending with boy feelings when she should have increased her feelings of searching for her brother, Lugh. The story should have focused less on ogling over complicated feelings for Jack. Let’s not make it a sappy love story.
Oops, just realized I misspelled the chimp's name.
It should be Zan, not Zen.
Once upon a time, there was a man who lived all his normal life painting, but he wasn’t any normal painter, he painted about his brother who died recently at a haunted house. Legend has it, “Whoever dies in the haunted house of the dead “Ghost of the house,” will never rest in peace when they die and will be haunted forever!” So people would never visit the “Ghost of the house when they are old, sick, or even when they are tired. So the “Ghost of the house” would fool them into dying in the haunted house. But this man was very brave would always take risks. When his brother painted about him, the dead soul of would always show up in all of his paintings. Then one day, he noticed that his paintings had a dead soul beside his brother in the paintings, so he was very amazed and took his painting with his brother and the dead soul in the museum so everyone would also be amazed by his wonderful painting. Once he had hung up his painting in the museum, the dead soul got angry that he hung his painting proudly in the museum, because she wanted the man who painted the painting to be scared and she did not want herself to be reviled in front of everyone but he wasn’t because he was brave and then, the dead soul got reborn to get revenge on the man by grabbing him into the painting. That is why you would always see a dead man’s soul and a dead ghost’s soul every time you look at his painting!
Story By: Zain Saleem Story based on the #3 picture.
Once upon a time, there was a dog name Marcus, who lived with a family of three kids. He wanted to be able to do all the things that the kids did. Most of the the time, he felt left out because the kids were too busy. He wanted to be a human but he had no choice but to stay as a dog.
One day Marcus was day dreaming about how amazing it would be like to be a human, for example riding his bike with kids on the block during the summer. That’s when he got the idea of making a bike for dogs only since summer is near by as well! When the kids went to school and the paren’ts went off to work, he gathered up all the utensils and used items from the family’s house, and then called all his fellow dogs , who also wanted to help make a bike for dogs only.
After a couple of hours of construting the bike, which they called ” bikodogs ” they decided to ride the bike cross the block. All of them were excited to ride the bike.
People were shocked , and took tons of pictures as the dogs took turns to ride the bike across the block. Marcus couldn’t stop barking from the excitment. His dream finally came true! But at the end of the day, he thought to himself that even though being a human would be amazing,he’d rather stay as a dog.
we all know that seeing a dog on a bicycle is an amazing and a funny thing but its good for the dog because thats his talent and its a pleasure to its owner who actually taught him this talent.
Long time ago a boy named derby wanted a pet but unfortunately,his dad thought he was young and not responsible enough to take care of it. so he waited and waited until he was older then he bought a pet dog and the dog could stand so he named his dog standley when derby turned 16 and standly was growing up too, once in the park they were playing, and something got standley’s attention it was a weird looking bicycle and it seemed that standley and derby both liked it and wanted to ride it so they took it home and everyday they would practice especially standley and the more he practiced the better he got at riding it.
Hey Zain, great story, I think you meant to post it here: https://blogs.tpl.ca/wordout2012/creative-writing-challenge/
Hi Saba, thanks for your rad contribution, might it actually belong here: https://blogs.tpl.ca/wordout2012/creative-writing-challenge/
Howdy ifla, nice tale, did you mean to post it here: https://blogs.tpl.ca/wordout2012/creative-writing-challenge/