Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Win or Lose?
May I first say... dumb ending. Really really dumb. It was is if the book was published before they noticed that they had lost the last few pages of the story. But I guess that's what makes it a "thinking" book, so here is what I think... the town won. (I should shoot for the positive, right?) I am lead to believe that the Nazi's killed the Mayor and the Doctor which made the whole town even more upset. I would be upset too if both my faithful leader and and the man who brought be into the world, was killed by some invaders who I very much disliked from the beginning. In fact, it seemed as though the invaders had lost the war long before the ending. Mentally they were defeated. Their mind-set was all scrambled and unfocused, which to me means that the town had a small success by putting a dent in their invaders. Even if the town was blown up into shreds, the townspeople never lost hope and never gave up, so they are the real winners.
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I agree, the town had to win with the idealism that each individual within the town was an unknown enemy. No blatant evidence of killing.
ReplyDeletei think that although the town won as a whole, individually each of the towns people lost a smaller battle in the sense that family members were shot, fled for their lives, or even because they lost their happiness.
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