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Our group in Seattle argued for an hour about the ending of 'The Road'
One member, Sarah, said my take was too simple because I only focused on the father's love. She pointed out three specific lines about the mother's choice that I'd completely missed. I went back and read those pages again, and it changed how I saw the whole book's mood. Has anyone else had their view flipped by a small detail someone else caught?
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the_shane6mo ago
The kid's habit of carrying the flute in his pocket gets me. It's this tiny act of keeping something beautiful alive in a dead world. The father never tells him to do it, he just does. That changes the ending from just survival to maybe rebuilding something.
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ray2106mo ago
Oh man, that hits hard. I totally get having your whole view changed like that. And yeah, what @the_shane said about the flute really fits that feeling too.
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