Ending Lines! Podcast Episode

Podcast Episode:

MAL Season 2, Episode 14

Word of the week- 

Ending:

The final part of something, bring to a finish.

10 Closing Lines From Various Novels:

A closing line can be just as memorable as an opening one, and can leave the reader feeling satisfied, anxious for another book to come out, or feeling as though something great has been lost.  Spoiler Alert: Today’s reading is from the ending of novels such as A Tale of Two Cities, Alice in Wonderland, and The Yellow Wallpaper.  For a complete list, see the description on the Podcast post.  If you don’t want to know the way the novels end, you may want to skip this episode.  

10 Closing Lines from Various Novels:

1. Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: ““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.”
2. Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll: “Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.”
3. The Yellow Wallpaper, By Charlotte Perkins Gilman… “Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”
4. Moby-Dick, By Herman Melville… “On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.”
5. Frankenstein, By Mary W. Shelley….”He sprung from the cabin-window, as he said this, upon the ice-raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance.”
6. The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells…” And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”
7. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper…”“It is enough,” he said. “Go, children of the Lenape, the anger of the Manitou is not done. Why should Tamenund stay? The pale faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red men has not yet come again. My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.”
8. The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett…”  Across the lawn came the Master of Misselthwaite and he looked as many of them had never seen him. And by his side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire—Master Colin!”
9. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter…”But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper.”
10. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell “Willie always speaks to me when he can, and treats me as his special friend. My ladies have promised that I shall never be sold, and so I have nothing to fear; and here my story ends. My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple-trees.”

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Tips:10 Beginning and ending Line Writing Prompts:

Start by writing the beginning the exact way you’ll write the ending!  Use the following phrases to start and end a story.  

1. And they all lived happily ever after.
2. It was another tale for another time.
3. Forbidden?  How could words possibly stop someone?
4. As I looked down at the body, I thought “This isn’t how this was supposed to go.”
5. Time goes on for everyone.
6. Time wasn’t on my side.
7. He hadn’t always been a criminal.  
8. The sun rises and sets the same, but nothing feels right.
9. I watched the turtle run slowly down the hill, one last time.
10. She only wanted peace.  

Prompt: 

Choose one of the 10 beginning and ending lines and write a story!