The Sense of an Ending

Thinking Activity

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   Welcome to my blog, here I would like to write this blog based on the novel The Sense of an Ending this is also the part of my thinking activity, so let's discuss. 

# The Sense of an Ending

 The Sense of an Ending is a 2011 novel written by British author Julian Barnes. ... The Sense of an Ending is narrated by a retired man named Tony Webster, who recalls how he and his clique met Adrian Finn at school and vowed to remain friends for life.

# Julian Barnes

     Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George. He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. 

Do you see any missing block – some dot which is not getting connected with the whole or dot missing to get full sense of the novel - in the plot of this psychological thriller?

          Though this novel " The Sense of an Ending " Is considered as a psychological thriller and the title itself suggest by using the SENSE of an ENDING. So here throughout the novella fill with full of mystery or psychological thriller, as above the question, my answer is that yes there are some dot which is not getting connected with the whole, for instance in between Tony's conversation with Margaret he share his one of affairs type of experience with Annie. Here I have question that what is the significant role if it's not connected with any incident, what is the reason, so that Barnes mention this through Tony. And yes one another thing is that one dot to missing to get full sense of the novel is that getting full sense of the main reason to commit suicide of Adrian, we can't get main or fixed reason, we can only assume that why Adrian commit suicide, so here the dot is missing to get the full sense of the novel.  

         The light of new revelations, how do you read character of Veronica? Instinctive, manipulative, calculating, stubborn, haughty, sacrificial, trustworthy, good Samaritan?

         In this novel the character of Veronica play a vital role, though this character is quite complicated, no one can assume that what is going on inside her mind, I would read this character with the lens of manipulative, stubborn, haughty, sacrificial. From the very beginning of the novel when she is introduced by Tony at that time we can see her as a manipulative not an  instinctive, we can read as a stubborn and haughty, she is not same with everyone, whenever Tony tries to get answer from Veronica, she is not give the answer directly, even after a lot request she is gave the answer, she is haughty but at some point we can considered as sacrificial also because she knows all this things still she take care of his half-brother Adrian in this point we can considered her as sacrificial also. 

#Film adaptation:

Initial release: 10 March 2017 (USA)

Director: Ritesh Batra

Music by: Max Richter

Adapted from: The Sense of an Ending

Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Michelle Dockery, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer, more

  After the reading of the original novel ' The Sense of an Ending' and then watching the film adaptation of this novel, I can differentiate in between, the film adaptation is not quite sufficient, because some of the original sense and philosophy, which is depicted by Barnes is not adapted by movie, so it's harms the very soul of the novel. 

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