I must say, I am somewhat disappointed with the ending of the book. I feel like questions were not answered, instead they were just ignored. I was wondering what would happen to everyone back in Waknuk when David, Rosalind, and Petra left; I wondered how they would react to them being gone. Instead everyone who was in the Fringes at the time that the Sealanders came was killed off.
It was disappointing to read that Rachel could not come along with David, Rosalind, and Petra. But I think Michael made the right choice in staying back with Rachel, if he had chose to leave then Rachel would be the only one left in Waknuk who could create thought shapes. She would be so lonely then. Another thing that was disappointing to read was that Sophie died. She seemed like such a major character at the beginning of the novel and then for a long time we didn't hear anything about her. She is finally re-entered into the story just to be killed a couple chapters later; that was disappointing. I was hoping that she would somehow be saved. I was actually hoping that many deviations would be saved. It seemed like they had such a hard, unfair life and I thought it would be fair if they were saved in the end.
I found it strange how technologically advanced the Sealanders are. I understand that their society was strides ahead of Waknuk. But they have helicopters and special spray to kill everyone and the people of Waknuk still use horses to get around. Why is there such a difference between their two societies?
One last thing about Petra and her ability to create thought shapes. I realize that she has a great ability and it was far beyond the ability of the people from Waknuk, but at the end of the novel when they arrive in Sealand her excitement seems to affect everyone there. I still do not understand why her ability is so powerful. It seems greater than the ability of anyone in Sealand and they have all had training to develop this ability.
Overall it was a pretty good book, but I must say that the ending was a little disappointing.
I totally agree with you!! I was really disappointed in the ending and how many of my questions weren't answered. The fact that many people like Sophie and the deviants were killed at the end, i thought was wrong. Sophie was a major character, but like you said, when she re-entered, she was just killed not to long after that. The fact that many deviants were killed i think is wrong, because they lived such an unfair and unjust life. I thought that it was weird that the Sealanders were so technologically advanced and it seemed strange to me as i read it. Petra's ability is strong, and the people in Sealand have had training, but maybe the people in Sealand developed the ability and Petra was born with it. but i guess that still doesn't answer why she is still more powerful than the rest. Disappointing to never find that out as well as many other questions i had.
ReplyDeleteI think there could have been a much better ending to this book, something that included Sophie, and Rachel. I don't really understand what the author was thinking when writing the last chapters of the book. He spent alot of time creating characters that could have participated in the story to make it more interesting, but instead he decided to kill them off!! Why did so many people have to die? there were way to many question that went un-answered, i still don't even know what the Tribulation stuff is all about, and that what the story is based on. I was dissappointed with the way they used Petra's power, because they didn't, she made no contribution, she had almost no significance, she was just 'powerful!'
ReplyDeleteoverall dissappointing end of the book.