The Sense of an Ending: Julian Barnes

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This blog is my classroom activity on The Sense of an Ending


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  “The Sense of Ending” is written by Julian Patrick Barnes in      2011. It is a psychological thriller and a memory novel.

 

1 ) What is the meaning of phrase ‘Blood Money’ in Veronica’s reply email?

Sarah give 500 pounds to Tony but in the reply of email veronica use one phrase Blood Money . Veronica told that it is blood money .The phrase 'Blood Money' can have meanings like, Adrian relationship with veronica's mother Sarah and that is why Sarah give birth to child and that is why Adrian committed suicide . Their relationship damages young Adrian's life so it can be called Blood Money and Tony is cause of all damages so Veronica told that it is blood money .

2 ) How do you decipher the equation: b = s – v x/+ a1 or a2 + v + a1 X s = b?

b = s – v x/+ a1 or a2 + v + a1 X s = b?

The equation Means b =baby (young Adrian),

s = Sarah,

V= Veronica,

A1= Adrian

A2 =Antony (Tony Webster)


Here Tony meet Adrian but it is not Adrian but Adrian and Sarah 's child .


3 ) Adrian’s diary is willed to Tony by Sarah Ford. Why did Sarah Ford own it? Why was it in the possession of Veronica?
Tony wrote one letter to Adrian and in this letter many kinds of mistake about Veronica and Adrian's relationship Tony believe that they both are in love but is it not so .Then Sarah had a diary of Adrian because of they were together in last few days before Adrian committed suicide and Adrian wrote his diary for Tony. This diary he gave to Sarah.So here we say that Adrian wrote this Diary for Tony 's all question But that diary is with Veronica because of may be she does not wanted to hand over it to Tony .

4 ) Was the mentally retarded middle aged ‘Adrian’, Tony’s friend who did not commit suicide and was suffering from trauma and thus gone mad, and was living with hidden identity?

No this statement is not true . He was suffering from trauma because he felt guilty because of his girlfriend’s mother is pregnant and that is why this he committed suicide . He had also saw this one example of his own friend who also committed suicide because in his school life he made his girlfriend pregnant. So Adrian feels guilty, and then he commits suicide.

 5 ) How was Veronica related to Adrian, the one suffering in care-in-the-community?

Veronica and young Adrian is relation of brother and sister because of Veronica's mother and Adrian both are in affair and that is why Sarah give birth to child . So generally we can see that relation between Veronica and young Adrian is relation of brother and sister. so in that connection she is a sister of Adrian who suffering in care in the community.  

6 ) 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?


Yes , There are many missing blocks are in the novel.
   

  How Veronica and Adrian met?

 What were the reasons for ending relationship between Adrian and Veronica?

 Why Sara hates and jealous with her own daughter Veronica?

 Why Sara warned Tony about his relationship with Veronica?

 Why Adrian has committed suicide if he was happy in his last days?

    7 ) Do you see any possible reason in the suicide of Adrian Finn?

There are two reasons behind the Adrian's suicide of . First, he is suicide because of the suffering from trauma. Second is he affair with her girlfriend mother and he had burden of There baby and that is why he had also fear from society so that is why he committed suicide .

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

    Yes she is having all these qualities like  Smart, Intelligent, trustworthy ,Calculative .

    9 ) What do you mean by Unreliable Narrator? Is Tony Webster classifiable as Unreliable Narrator?

  Unreliable narrator is the one whose narration cannot be taken as reliable or whose narration is not faithful to reality.

 

   Tony can also be called an unreliable narrator because as from Beginning till the End he can’t remember things exactly, and also he starts his narration by saying that “I remember, in no particular order”.  He himself telling all things and deconstruction his own narrated for example   whatever he narrated in part one, is deconstruction and challenged in second part. So, he is unreliable.

    Thank you...