Final Blogging Assessment in English 1B

As this is my final post for a while, I suggest that the theme for this post should comply with the occasion.

 The final line in any book is, when you strip it down to the basics, the most important.

 Many leave a reader thinking what would happen next, like adding ellipses to a mysterious sentence which takes you a couple of minutes to comprehend, then you infer what happens next, even though it's not written in fine print in the book.

 There are also very simple closing verses that leave the reader with a sense of satisfaction rather than suspense. For example, the famous line from any Grimm tale, "...and they lived Happily Ever After." You know exactly what happens next once you read that line. Princess/Damsel marries Unlikely Groom who initially saves the day, they have kids, get old together, you get the gist.

Besides that ending to most Fairy Tales, there are many other famous closing lines out there. Like from Romeo & Juliet, "Never was there a tale of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

The closing line to The Great Gatsby, the book which I had just completed reading, is also very famous, indeed. It makes you ponder a little on your sense of vocabulary and sentence structure, but it is none but satisfying in the end of it all. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

You don't really know what exactly is going on in this quote. According to the first few words, "So we beat on, boats against the current," maybe, using setting, Nick and Jordan set sail after the Gatsby's death. Obviously, the last few words there, "...borne back ceaselessly into the past," suggests that he is trying to forget it all. All the material, the cars, the drinking, the sex, he is trying to evict from his head.

Those are just some ideas. You can think up some of your own, but using context clues, characters, setting, plot, diction and syntax, basically all the elements of writing and text analysis, those are the ones that I came up with and most likely you would come up with if you weren't thinking. But rememeber, writing is about creativity and expressing yourself, so don't rerstrict your talent and jot down your thoughts without any thought. Dive deeper in your expertise, and make something fun out of it.

And, turn the back cover.