Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don’t do a lot of celebrating. Life isn’t a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Here’s what doesn’t happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. That doesn’t by any means cover everything that happens in a war, but it’s a start. Rachel dies, and Tobias will never get over it. Marco and Ax, on the other hand, move easily past the war and even manage to use their experience to good effect. Jake, who was so brave and capable during the war is adrift during the peace. Jake and Cassie were in love during the war, and end up going their separate ways afterward. That’s what happens, so that’s what I wrote. And always people are left shattered by the loss of loved ones. Other times people in war make the move to peace very easily. Some people who were brave and fearless in war are unable to handle peace, feel disconnected and confused. Often relationships that were central during war, dissolve during peace. And everyone is mad about the cliffhanger ending.Īnimorphs was always a war story. That there was no grand, final fight-to-end-all-fights. That Tobias seems to have been reduced to unexpressed grief. There are a lot of complaints that I let Rachel die. Quite a number of people seem to be annoyed by the final chapter in the Animorphs story.
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