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Good afternoon. I am currently reading the novel The Things They Carried. Today I plan on blogging about the horrible ending of this story. If the last chapter can even be considered an ending. “Timmy’s life with a story.” (246) is not considered an ending. I think that Tim should have created a much better ending. It seems like it just cuts off in the middle of a story or thought. When someone is writing a novel on the supposed events of a war it is completely necessary to have an ending that sums up the topic of the story. I think this should have ended by him describing life back at home after the war or a really interesting story that he heard while over seas but not just leave people hanging. I see this as the author not being creative enough to create an ending. Almost like when a song artist just lets the song fade out instead of having a fitting end. The only possible reason for this is that the author wants the reader to use their imagination to create an ending of their own but I still believe that if this was the case then Tim would have left us with something similar to a cliff hanger. However this is not here.

O’Brien Tim, The Things They Carried, Boston, MA. Broadway Books, 1990. Print