Aimee Bender has a different style of writing. Very unique than those we have read thus far. She writes mostly about fantasy or make believe stories, but all have a lesson or moral. The one thing that I have found so far is that her endings are left open. It leaves the reader with an open ending, a sense of no closure in what happens to conclude the story. In the "End of the Line" story the little man goes back to his world and the big man sits on the bench. There were questions that arouse in what happened next? like does the big man attempt to contact the little people's village or does he just go on with his lonely life?
Also in "Fruits and Words" there seemed to be a good moral, and that is I believe Aimee Bender was saying that even though you can't see something it doesn't mean you you shouldn't believe in it. For example, the woman could never see "hope" but it doesn't mean it is not there. Even with the good moral she still left the story open in the end. The Woman was scared of "blood" and when it was spilled all over her car and she got back to her house she noticed that the mango's were rotten. We still never knew what happened though. What happen to the mango she ate? and what happened to the boyfriend? these are all things we are forced to draw our own conclusions. Her style is definitely unique but I think it does force her readers to think and draw their own conclusions to fill in the missing gaps.
Scott Swan
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