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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

mailman

did anyone else want to know what would have happened if edgar got to meet the mailman? i wanted to see the mailman’s reaction especially after we find out that the mailman and edgar had a relationship before the accident.
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8 comments:

rbreaux said...

I did. i was hoping that Edgar would find peace in himself. then after hearing the relationship he had with Rosa and Nikolas before the accident would have made an interesting ending. Edgar, Nikolas, and Rosa would all of had the family they had all hoped for all their life.

March 25, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Ele said...

I liked the way he didn't meet the mailman. I think that would put it as to much of a Disney ending or something

March 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Christine Schmidt said...

I think it kind of made it depressing how he didn't, that kind makes his life purpose pointless..

March 25, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Mister Dee said...

I think the mailman would likely go insane. For nearly 8 years, the mailman felt majorly guilty about running over Edgar; now if someone whom he thought was dead just suddenly reappeared, that would make anyone go crazy.
It's not like Udall can willingly suspend disbelief and just have the dead people come back from the dead

March 25, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Kiberico said...

i actually thought the mailman was going to be dead when edgar finally went up to meet him. But i of course did not expect him to be who he was.

March 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM
andrewmcdaniel said...

I'm really glad that Edgar got to have some closure by meeting Rosa, but I think that if Nikolas was still alive it would have been too perfect. I think it made it a little more believable that he was not alive.

March 25, 2009 at 12:53 PM
jmartinez said...

I agree with Mcdaniel, if he had been alive it would have made the book too easy. But im glad i found out he was loved by the mailman.

March 25, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Anonymous said...

I agree i think the endings best without Nikolas alive, because essentially it was Edgar's goal in life to find this mailman, and with Rosa there it'd be a picture perfect little family, something that doesn't necessarily coincide with the strange and abrupt way things fell into place in the actual Novel.

March 30, 2009 at 8:30 AM

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