Narration: Nature, purpose and effects
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Structure
How the cultural context affects the characters
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Format/Medium
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End of the Novel
The end of the novel is both happy and sad:
- The ending is sad because the father, a character to whom we have become accustomed, dies.
- The ending is happy because we find out that there are in fact other good people in the world. The fact that the “good guys” have found the boy shows that there is some hope for humanity. We know that the boy’s new family are good because:
- They don’t take his gun
- They don’t eat their children
- They believe in a god (suggesting that they may have kept the morals taught to them by their religion)