The End

Personally, I thought this ending was great. I really liked how the last scene was happy, it had a lesson, and it was about love, metamorphoses, and every other theme touched before. It was the only scene that doesn't really have any tragedy, and it's a beautiful story of how by being a good person you can be happy for ever, no matter how much material things you have.

I really liked how the whole base of this scene was that "Zeus, the lord of the heavens, and Hermes, his son, came down to earth to see what people were really like (p. 77)." It was funny how the reason for all of that happening was as simple as that.

I also liked how the narrators divided the telling of the story, and how the scene had a rather comedic feeling to it. It had funny parts and it was never really tragic. The theme and lesson is a very recurring theme in modern literature as well as in children stories, because it is really very important.

I also liked how she incorporated the metamorphosis theme by granting the poor people a wish, which was to stay together forever, and how they accomplished that by making them both into trees.

It was very nice how it started with a serious tone, then it changed to comedic, and at last it could be seen like it had a horror story ending because of the part where they say: "Walking down the street at night, when you're all alone, you can still hear, stirring in the intermingled branches of the trees above, the ardent prayer of Baucis and Philemon (p. 83)."

Basically, I liked this ending a lot, as well as the whole play, and in my opinion it is the most interesting book we have read so far. I can't wait to read more!



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