Let Me Outta Here!

So I find it suspiciously interesting that the week we celebrate love and friendship the Honors class is reading two stories dealing with death, just saying.
I just finished reading “The Other Side of the Hedge” and I find it interesting that while it is vaguely similar to “No Exit”, it’s also rather different, like two sides of the same coin. Judging by these two works, death is an ending. Not a reward or specific punishment depending on the life lived, just an ending where everyone sort of ends up eventually. Apparently death is also quite boring. I think the authors are maybe trying to say that there is no relief in death, for neither the good people nor the bad people. Death just… is. That kind of purposeless existence is awful. In both cases, the main character(s) try to escape back into life only to be barred from doing so. Clearly, they don’t want to be there. How terrible must it be if a life full of strife, toil, and unhappiness is better than death.


P.S.: i commented on Will's "The Other Side"