The Long Walk !?!?!?! what a end???

[Bojan89]

Hey,
I finished a few minutes ago The Long Walk...and i couldn´t stop to read this book, I read it without sleeping !!! I love this book, BUT what a end???
I hoped Garratys wish is to stop this Long walk in future or something like that.
But THIS end i read,was bad.
I wish that Mr. King write a bit more after finishing the long walk about Garratys life,how he will live after this horrible marche.
but this end,"he runs to the dar boy in the shadow..."(i read it in german,so i try to translate it) is a very, very bad end...

I read so much and hoped a good ending,but it was a bad end...

Sorry about my english, it is bad,i know,but i hope u can understand me :-)

[rjt65]

Hey Bojan 1-Welcome---

2- I loved the story and ending...as in life not everything wraps up and these open ended ending leave us to ...think..the possibilities..enjoy the journey friend!


PS i think there might some translation gremlins at work there too....

[Matticus]

I think SK's point was to show there was no winner...not really.

[hipmamajen]

I think Matticus is right, that we were supposed to see that after all that there was no real winning at the finish line.

I felt the same way as you, though. I wanted to find out what he did afterward, what his wish was and how his life was different because of The Long Walk. I'm sure that would really change a person's outlook on life!

So, I understood the ending, but I was left wanting more

[cwalrus]

I liked the end. It was my theory that he saw the spirit of Pete McVries beckoning to him since that turned out to be his best friend during the walk. Whether it was real, supernatural or imagined is debatable, but that was my theory. I agree that the ending demonstrates that there really were no winners. He was in excruciating pain both physical and mental. Don't think there is any real way to recover from his experience even long after its over. I think it's better that SK left the future to our imaginations. I think that he simply was never the same and that no prize could really compensate for what he went through.

[Bojan89]

Yes, I know that he will show us,that there is no winner, but i don´t like the end, because i want to know how his life will was different after the Long Walk.So I think i have the same problem like "hipmamjen" :-(
But thank you al for your answers :-)

[Matticus]

He was crazy, that's how it went.

I can understand the need for something like this but it seems like it takes so much away from the journey. What we were supposed to know about him was told in the pages, and that was volumes.

[jenboxer77]

I like endings like this. They leave room for interpretation. There are many possible endings. You can dream up your own ending.

[boogerb53]

Yes, I know that he will show us,that there is no winner, but i don´t like the end, because i want to know how his life will was different after the Long Walk.So I think i have the same problem like "hipmamjen" :-(
But thank you al for your answers :-)

I think that, Constant Reader, is for YOU to decide....

[Rabid Assassin]

I havent heard of this is it a book or a short story?