Cory post 3

At the end of The Secret Life of Bees Lily is thinking about what has happened in her previous adventure and what will happen in the future. This book ends sort of abruptly and does not resolve some problems, for example you don’t know what will happen to Zach and Lily in the future. There are at least three reasons why an author would leave a book open ended. The most common would be to signify that there will be a sequel. This is probably not what Sue Monk Kidd is doing because usually when the author is going to make a sequel they make some kind of note in the back of the book or release a news article about the sequel. Sometimes the author cannot decide how the book will end, so they leave it unresolved. I still don’t think this is what Sue Monk Kidd did. The final reason is probably what Sue Monk Kidd did, and that is to end the book so the reader can use their imagination and think of their own ending.