Alternative Ending: Good People
Write an alternative ending to a story we’ve read, imitating the style of the story. Then write a post (of three or more paragraphs) that explains why you reimagined the ending as you did and that analyzes how your ending changes the meaning of the story. Your analysis should engage with details in the original story in addition to commenting on specific details in your alternative ending. “What would even Jesus do? For now it was just now he felt her two small strong soft hands on his, to turn him. What if he was just afraid, if the truth was no more than this, and if what to pray for was not even love but simple courage, to meet both her eyes as she says it and trust his heart?” But she didn’t say it. Her hair fell over her shoulder in one unbroken curtain, veiling her face from his sight. He felt like a monster now for looking at her this way, for expecting her to play out his game. It was horrible of him to think the Lord would let him bind himself to her, someone who was s...
