Aimee Bender has a unique style to her writing. She writes works that have morals or lessons at the end and have fantasy elements. In "End of the Line", I think she may have taken fantasy to a whole new level. When the big man purchased a little man for a pet and kept him in a cage, I thought that it was a bit bizarre. If he wanted company that would talk to him, why not just get a parrot? I still believe that the big man is crazy. Who sticks their "pet" down their pants or makes their "pet" pleasure themselves while watching? That is just sick, I don't understand what the man's motives are. If he wants friends, he needs to act like a friend. I can't blame the girl from work for having such a reaction when he asked her out.
And the big man not believing that the little man was in so much pain after poisoning his water and further abusing him, is obsurd. Why wouldn't he understand that because he is so small, he can't tolerate the same amount of pain as others. It's like a baby-small, fragile, why would you abuse a baby and when it cries wonder what's wrong. It just doesn't make any sense. The only solution to all of this is that he's got a serious chemical imbalance going on in his twisted mind.
In ending of "End of the Line", is too broad to be able to accurately predict how the big man will act towards the little people in their town. I think that he may act nice and respectful now, but if someone rejects him, he could have a mental breakdown and resort to his old ways. He played off being rejected by the little man when he wanted to see what his family was like too casually. I would suspect that he has something up his sleeve, but I can't be sure what that is.
Pam Kawalerski
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