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Why is this such a good closing line? 2016-11-17 00:52:15 Post No.
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>The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Reading that at the very end just gives you that satisfying "done" feeling and it hits you with its finality. What makes for a good closing line to a story?
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>>8731622
>What makes for a good closing line to a story?
Some sense of satisfaction and finality, it looks like
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Supreme mediocrity
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>>8731622
Explicitly summarizing the overall message of the text.
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>It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Tale of Two Cities has both the best opening, and best closing line in literature.
can one book really be so based?
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>>8732008
>you will never again read "Fifty-Two" for the first time
The funny thing about AToTC for me it's that I had already read a few novels of Dickens' but didn't like them neatly as much. It's just so much better paced and more impactful than something like Great Expectations.
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>>8731622
I like it when the last sentence contains the title of the book.
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>>8732601
Name exactly 7 books this occurs in
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