Surprisingly, David finds Sophie in the Fringes land. She takes him to her cave and cleans his wounds. at the same time, Petra and Rosalind struggle inside spider-man's cave. David is scared and reaches Rosalind telepathically. He decides to save the two, but Sophie stops him. She takes one of the knives and kills the guardsman. She frees Petra and Rosalind, and brings them to her cave. The war between Waknuk and Fringes starts. Throughout the battle, both side have casualties. Eventually, Waknuk people brake through Fringes' defense and attack their territory. Out of nowhere, a monstrous flying object appears. Everyone is frightened, and decides to step back. The Sealand people emerge from the ship, taking Petra, Rosalind, David, and Micheal with them. Micheal refuses because his girlfriend is back in Waknuk. He requests that they should seek his girlfriend. One of the Sealanders refuses, and explains that there won't be enough fuel to return back home. Micheal decides to stay, rescue his girlfriend, and promises to come to the Sealand. The other three, go on-board and experience a journey of their lifetime. As the fly proceeds they are able to visualize people and an amazing land in front of them. Happiness and joy emerges through their minds; David and his companions will finally live among the people who respect and possess their powers. THE END
The last chapters are quite surprising. In my summary I did not mention an important fact. After a long period of time Sophie is finally found. She was not dead after all. Unfortunately, David's father, spider-man and Sophie die during the war. David's father was killed by the spider-men, he finally managed to repay his debt. He was expelled from Waknuk and thrown to the Fringes. Sophie is killed by an arrow, under unlucky circumstances. This last chapter is like a tragedy, with a happy ending. People die, while others engage into joy. The Sealanders save the children from being tortured or perhaps killed by the Waknuk villagers. For the first time I could visualize David's vengeance towards his father. He did not kill him, but it was interesting to see his other side, the dark one, which every individual has.
The entire story, made me think about the future. In the year of 2008, we can see that different powers have atomic bombs, that could be used at any time. What did Hiroshima bombings teach us? I personally believe, that a lesson is simple. Atomic bombs are capable of killing or I should say murdering millions of innocent humans. The "Tribulation" is very probable in the upcoming years. It does not mean it is inevitable. I think that people should read this book not for their pleasure, but for a deeper understanding of how world would look like in the future? Do we really want to live like that. Making everything pure, being unable to travel, not having an opinion or ability to express own thoughts. It is easy to pull the trigger, anyone can do do it. No one is able to go back in time, or fix things he we had done. it is time to make adjustments, before it will be too late...
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I am so happy that Sophie showed up. This hole time I was thinking she was dead. However it did make me a little disgusted by the way she must know live. I really cared for her and couldn't believe that people of Waknuk would do that to a young lady, or to anyone else. These chapters are also packed with excitement. The time that David and Sophie reunite in the forest I was half expecting David to give Sophie an apology for giving in to his fathers wickedness and telling her name and leading to her ending up living in the fringes. But the author never brought it up. I found it a little strange that even though David’s father, Sophie, and the Spider Man (which in fact would be David’s uncle) died, the overwhelming joy of the beautiful Sealand women's arrival made vanish all misery of these deaths. David, Petra, nor Rosaline seemed to react over any of these deaths. I wasn't to surprised when the Sealanders showed up in what we would call a helicopter, but I was when the author started writing about the cobweb like white string killed all of the people. It made me think that these Sealanders must be very advanced and smart in their part of the world.
This is an interesting technique the author uses. All the bad things, deaths, etc. lead us up to David, Petra and Rosalind leaving to a "Wonderland." It is not the first book, in which I encounter such ending. In my opinion, I view the ending as open-minded. The author gives us a message of being conscious of the things that happen outside our circle, village, community, etc. The narrow-mindedness of people in Waknuk caused many deaths, suicides and imprisonments. The ending is very open, to show that YES there are others, and Yes it is time to advance and move away from secluded and religious traditions.
AS for the story, David and his friends deserved a happy ending. After all the troubles they had been through, it was time for something positive. Another question arises after reading this fictional story: How does live look like in Sealand? For this part, we have to use our imagination...
I can't believe that David was living in such a small place of the world and never knew about Sealand. This does show that there are other things out there and if you don't fit in where you stand, try something else or a different place.
I agree! with all the negative things happening to David, Rosaline and Petra in this story i agree they deserved a happy ending. Although, if you think about it this is not the end. End of the book, yes, but not the end of the story. your imagination can take you to this fictional Sealand place and continue on the story of David and friends. Although this is a fictional story I love imagining what will happen next.
In fictional stories, imagination is the most important. I am curious if Petra would become a teacher or a researcher in Sealand? Would David and Rosaling got married? There is so many questions,and not a definite answer. It is up to us to end the story. They might die in a plane crash before landing, to make it sad, or live happily ever after. This the beauty of fiction, which I always admire.
A reference to the last comment. David could not know about Sealand since the village of Waknuk is so secluded and closed from the outside world. They believed that the entire planet was destroyed during tribulation. To give you a modern day example. Think about this strictly religious societies, who follow rigid rules and believe that they are the best.
On the other side of the spectrum, lets think about Hitler. He used to be a strong Christian believer.
Like I said before, religion can be a large barrier/border, and have the ability to brainwash people.
Last but not least, George Orwell's famous novel entitled "Big Brother." Big Brother was torturing and brainwashing, so people would be under his command.
Big Brother is a fictional novel, yet powerful and made me believe that one day such a society would exist.
IMAGINATION :)
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