Friday, September 28, 2012
The ending
I love that the ending of AFTA was abrupt. At first I was aggravated, because I wanted to know more, but after I while I found myself content with the ending. An ending any different I don't think would have fit. I also enjoyed that fact that it was raining when Catherine died, and how before she had seen death in the rain. Maybe, she saw her own death in the rain. Frederick did not go back to the war in book five the war came to him. When Catherine died, it was like being at the front again, where death is all around Fredrick. Catherine died in a hospital, and while there is a lot of life in a hospital, there is also a lot of death, just like there is at the front.
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i found myself somewhat disappointed with the ending of the book...it was so abrupt i really just felt myself craving a little bit more...i don't know, maybe it's just me
ReplyDeletePersonally, I feel like if it went on longer more questions would go unanswered. I don't really see where he else he could have gone, but maybe I am being like a horse with blinders on.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why the baby had to die, maybe Lauren's right and it was done to emphasize that death is all around him again but I didn't think killing the baby was necessary. We all already knew Catherine was going to die, so I agree we didn't really need a long drawn out ending. But the pain Catherine was going through was drawn out, is that saying something? Like maybe it kind of goes along with what Frederic did, he sacrificed his life, got his leg blasted off, put up with war for soo long, then just quit. But I have a feeling he will go back to the war:hell, as Catherine will go to heaven.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't have made any sense if the baby didn't die. Remember that part when Frederic starts going on about things whereby he switches to talking directly to a removed audience about how no one 'gets out of life alive?' I'm too lazy to go get the book and directly quote, but he talked about how the strong were killed, and the innocent were killed, and the weak were broken and got stronger and died anyways. It was the biological trap. No one escaped, including Frederic and Catherine's son. It was really quite ironic how he didn't want the baby at all, but I bet he'dve atleast liked to leave the place with him if he couldn't have Catherine....it seems as if nothing works out well for anyone. Everyone dies or gets syphilis.
ReplyDeleteI personally agree with Katherine in that I think that the ending was disappointing. After reading the whole book, it just seems as though after all Frederic has been through, for the book to end with him just walking away from his dead wife and baby in the rain was just so i guess Hemingway-ish. I dont know it just seemed so boring and out of place. I just wanted something more to happen but I could see the ending from the beginning anyway so i guess thats that.
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ReplyDeleteCat, I realized that today in class and though it sounds horrible, it was necessary for the baby to die.
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