I finished reading the Curious Case of Benjamin Button a few days after finishing the blog post that was due last wednesday. Here is how the story continues:
Benjamin gets younger and younger and goes to fifth grade. He loses much of the knowledge he has gained over his lifetime and is worried with childish thoughts of being beat up at school by bullies. He starts failing each grade he enrolls in and ends up in Kindergarten, which he repeats a few times. The book ends as the lives of many people begin, Benjamin Button does not remember his life and is just a baby. The author does not say how Benjamin dies (or ceases to exist). I made the assumption that he merely vanished, and no one remembered that he existed, but that is just the pessimistic quality of my thinking. Another option I considered is that he may have become a baby once again, then he started getting older once again, and lived the same life he already had. Overall I liked the book quite a lot, and I thought it had an interesting plot to it, it was also very original. On the downside, I thought it lacked detail, which I suppose it had to if it were to cover Benjamin's entire life. I do not know how the movie will be. The book seems to be one of those which would not be a good movie, just because movies are supposed to be fast paced.
I;ll start a new book next week, since Benjamin Button wasn't long enough. Happy New Year!!