Unit #4 Blog #2

Unit #4 Blog #2
Aaron Pilgrim
LSTD 1233 Interdisciplinary Composition I
Professor Rhonda Kyncl

           The assignment that I found most gratifying was the writing assignment in Unit #3 in which we got to add a new chapter to a short novel we had read. It has always bothered me that the novel I had added to had never really finished the story in my opinion about what happened to the characters as they got older and became adults. Many authors do not ever tell you what happens to the characters in their novels as time goes on from the end of the story. I really enjoy books that tell you what happens to them later on. It does not have to go for 10 or 20 years, but a simple Joe went on to become a famous hockey player would suffice in many circumstances. A good example of this is at the end of the movie Stand by me, which is based on the novel The Body by Stephen King, the author tells you what happened to each of the main characters as they got older. For some of the characters things turned out well. For others it did not turn out so well, but you feel like you know more of the story by knowing the outcomes of their lives.This whole spill of mine may sound dumb to some who read it, but it's just the way I feel about the particular subject. I'm obviously not a literary expert by any means. There aremany who are smarter than I am on this subject that can probably explain why it is better not to reveal further lives of characters.