Mauve
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Post by Mauve on Nov 22, 2005 17:35:17 GMT -5
I kind of think a little of both. It fit in, but it was sad although I cannot say it was worng, because everything dies.
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Post by Cinder on Nov 24, 2005 19:38:17 GMT -5
Hmmm sorta hard question. In my opinion, Larka shouldn't have died...
But DCD is the author, and he thought it was best for Larka to cross over. Sure, it made me really sad, and I cried like a baby, but it fit with the book.
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Tarriq
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Post by Tarriq on Nov 24, 2005 19:55:01 GMT -5
What better way for her to go? She was an enigma; it was kinda obvious from the beginning. And the book wouldn't have the effect it did, had she not have died. In the end, she saved her kind...
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Mauve
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Post by Mauve on Nov 25, 2005 10:03:30 GMT -5
I guess. I thought it was rather hard to imagine her dead. I thought it was very unpredictable. But sheesh! I havent read that book in 2 years!
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Alkiera
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Post by Alkiera on Nov 25, 2005 10:09:33 GMT -5
I found that it fit right into the whole plot. This book dabbled on the religious side, even me, a Jew, could tell it was going into the Christian religion a little. Both Sita and Larka posed as something like Christ, both dying out of love and to teach a lesson. I found that Larka was perhaps Sita in another form, coming back to teach another lesson. So, I found that is was necessary for her to die. It may sound cruel, but who wants a chiched story where the villian dies and the heroine lives happily ever after with her mate? Personally, I thought it was a very smart move for DCD to do.
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Post by Drathlic on Nov 26, 2005 8:16:41 GMT -5
I agree completely with Alkiera. And in fact - that's a really interesting way to think about Larka...as in her becoming the new Sita to teach the wolves a second lesson of sorts.
But yes - if Larka had lived, then the story wouldn't have the same effect. And there would be no Larka's Blessing. I mean, yes it was terribly sad and to some extent you really didn't want it to happen- but for the story to become the story...she needed to.
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Shadowbane
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Post by Shadowbane on Nov 27, 2005 8:07:52 GMT -5
How could have Larka lved a regular happy life afterward anyway? It wold have been quite impossible I think. Oh, and I never thought about Larka and Sita before, fasinating ideas.
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Post by silthrim on Nov 28, 2005 20:50:25 GMT -5
[glow=black,2,300]Even though I knew that Larka was going to die in the end, it still made me quite sad. I sware I almost cried after I read that. But it did fit right into the story.[/glow]
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Post by Kerya on Jan 7, 2006 21:45:42 GMT -5
Yes,It made a good ending.But man,It was soooo sad. She was my fave charrie . But I'm a fan of bittersweet endings...
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Shadowbane
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Post by Shadowbane on Jan 8, 2006 0:40:29 GMT -5
I feel real sorry for Kar, I can't imagine how he felt to see his ture love die. It was like a whole book about her adventures and then she just dies like that. But it fit, and that's that.
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Post by Nyobe on Jan 10, 2006 22:27:26 GMT -5
It definately added to the story when Larka died. It was just a shock, i guess....since normally the good guys survive in books. It added that twist that made an already great book even better. But ya gotta feel sorry for Kar, like shadowbane up thur said. Larka was pretty much all Kar had until Huttser finally accepted him into the pack.
So, really sad but good to put it short.
[glow=silver,2,5,00].::Nyobe::.[/glow]
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Post by Kai on Feb 1, 2006 1:44:18 GMT -5
I knew Larka would have to die, it just made me sad to see how it affected Kar afterwards... that's what really got me. I mean, the poor lad lost everyone he had ever held dear. Though, as its been said before, it was a smart move on DCD's part not to be cliche.
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Post by BloodFang on Feb 10, 2006 22:01:44 GMT -5
In Fire Bringer DCD kept the main character Rannoch alive and I think that was a mistake because in the end he lost his powers to talk to other lera and he lost the power to heal and he lost his signature mark on his four head. Now who is to say the same thing wouldn't have happened to larka. If she had been alive wouldn't she have lost the powers of the sight? And if so, At least she would have been able to spend her last years with Kar. So I think it is it would have been good if larka lived or died. But If i had to choose, I would pick the ending where she dies because if she did lose the sight it would have been a travesty.
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Abisso
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Post by Abisso on Feb 11, 2006 16:37:09 GMT -5
Actually, Fire Bringer ended with the main character dying of old age...just like (spoiler) Hazel did in both Watership Down the movie and novel. So basically, in both books DCD has written (The Sight and Fire Bringer), the main character die in different ways, but are still...well, dead.
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Lharkah
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Post by Lharkah on Feb 11, 2006 17:45:27 GMT -5
Had Larka not died, I don't think the book would have been such a must-read. Most authors want their books to be either a tear-jerker or one that makes the reader really think about the morales or ideas expressed. In Fire Bringer, if Rannoch had died in the war- what would have happened to everyone? Willow wouldn't have been such a big part anymore; the whole thing wouldn't have been so...wonderful. Plus, DCD probably wanted the whole effect about Herne to be played out- and the fighting scene (Which, in my opinion, was the best part) would have been...ruined, I guess, because one minute Thistle and everyone are hauling butt and kicking major deer tail, and the next you wind up with Rannoch being dead. Now, can you actually imagine him having to stop the battle scene (I'm sure DCD loved it as well, as he was wriitng it) to do something about peace and tranquility and Herne? I can't.
Watership Down? It's the same thing with Rannoch. Bigwig or Blueberry, possibly Silver, would have taken over the warren, and it would have been ruined terribly. TERRIBLY terribly, because the second book in the series has Hazel's kits with Hyzenthlay, and Fiver's kits with whatever-her-name-was. Hazel's hwole entire adventures would been for nothing (Okay, okay, so everybody else lived. Pfft.), because he died, and the warren wouldn't have been the same. [/size][/center]
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