Acabei de terminar The Death Cure , e acho que não posso dizer que o fim de qualquer outra trilogia tenha me deixado mais decidido. Eu amei. Mas
Teresa's death almost seemed unnecessary. I found her to be a really natural character, one whom I grew close to very quickly. I don't think I ever distrusted her, though she could be angering at times.
Eu não entendo porque James Dashner escolheu matá-la. Ele já explicou por que, ou alguém pode ter uma ideia do porquê ela foi morta?
Aqui estão meus principais argumentos:
Con-morte:
Teresa was easy to become attached to as a character.
She seemed good all along, just a little misled.
Thomas and Teresa finally re-establish their bond at the end of the book.
Her death was so... disappointing. No special words, just a quick goodbye that made her seem irrelevant, when really, she was quite important, or so I thought.
There were already enough deaths that posed WICKED as the bad guy. There didn't need to be a last straw. Chuck and Newt were enough, plus all of the terrible things Thomas had witnessed or had done to him by the organization.
As únicas coisas que me fazem entender por que ela morreu, e tão sem cerimônia, são os seguintes pontos:
Pro-morte:
- Parecia haver um triângulo entre Thomas, Teresa e Brenda (seja um triângulo amoroso ou um triângulo de amizade). Como quando Thomas teve que escolher entre Brenda e Jorge no Berg no final do segundo livro (embora ele estivesse fingindo dessa vez), ele teve que escolher desta vez, e ele estava muito mais perto de Brenda, então Teresa teve que ir .
- Isso livrou as últimas marcas do passado de Thomas e permitiu que sua nova vida fosse livre e equilibrada, sem mais lembretes, mas com leves dores de tristeza.
She was important, but often very detached from the point of view the story was told in, and so the reader could easily distance him/herself from her.
That's the one point that feels unresolved. Sure, as mentioned in the pros, Teresa's death did bring some nice closing to the book, but left me hanging in a way, wishing she were still there.
Para resumir, Dashner parece pensar que isso foi uma morte necessária? E dadas as declarações acima, por quê? Se ele não declarou explicitamente alguma coisa, há algo na trilogia (ou prequel) que possa explicar sua lógica?
Um último ponto que gostaria de explorar, se possível:
Is it possible that Teresa's death was meant to rectify Janson's claim that Thomas was always solely self-centered and not willing to give to science? She sacrificed herself for him, showing once more, as Janson describes it, that everything revolves around little old Thomas.