Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Deerskin (part three)
To start out with can I just say how confused I was when the whole wedding scene was going on. I did not understand how there was two of Deerskin. I was thinking maybe it was like her older self verse her new self and how she was letting go the past and who she used to be and what happened to her. Also, would that be the reason why she was bleeding in between her legs as well? She was letting go what happened and giving it back to her father so she could move on with her life. Now that I mention the father, what happened to him exactly? After he fell I mean. I really wished they mentioned just a little bit more about that part. I assume he didn't marry Camiella but who did what with him after he fell, is what I would like to know. Other than that I thought this book's ending was great. It left you with a little bit of a mystery to weather or not Ossin and Deerskin or Lissar get married but you know deep down that they are together and happy. Lissar can finally lead the life she deserves now that she has overcome what happened in the past and does not have to fear her father, or herself/her memories. It was nice to have this book end with a happy ending considering everything Lissar went through throughout the whole novel.
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I think it was a very confusing scene, I read it three times before I finally got what was going on. He father seems to have been bled of his vitality, his power so to speak. In giving back her hurt to her father she made him into what he really was all along. Even his own party would not stand with him. The purpose of Deersking being shown as two and of her mother being in the vision- seemed confusing at first but once you realize that her mother was in essence a "witch" who had many under her spell including Lissar you understand that when mom disappears so does her spell leaving Lissar and Ossin able to live their lives as you yourself say you imagine it. Hard book to read and understand- I found myself re-reading many bits as I went along.
ReplyDeleteI too, think that this whole scene and it's schtick was rather . . . squicky? To be honest, I kind of wanted the closure of Lissar's father's punishment at the end; for us to see him paying for his horrible actions, besides just "falling down." The ending was somewhat anticlimactic in this manner. It all seemed to end so quickly, I mean, on one page you have everyone watching the spectacle of the King crawling away (to somewhere), and on the next page you have Lissar embracing Ossin, and then you have your happy ending. I felt like as if Lissar’s acceptance of Ossin, and the final scene where they embrace, could have been prolonged a bit. I also found myself asking questions as to what happened afterwords. I mean, we are just left at that love scene. I wondered how Lissar would come to terms with her own pathos and inherent wild-ness, and how she would reconcile this with being (as we assume) a part of the royal family. Then again, she and Ossin share an intense love of dogs, so maybe it would work out in this way. However, I also wonder what would happen with the King and whether or not Lissar inherits the Kingdom, indeed, if her father still holds jurisdiction over it, seeing as Lissar has unleashed her holy rage upon him. Overall, I loved the ending, but I found myself just wishing that it didn’t end so quickly; that the author gave us a little bit more time for Lissar to have a happily ever after.
ReplyDeleteI actually kind of like the way McKinley handles the king at the end. My thinking was that Lissar's accusations basically force him to acknowledge how he raped his daughter and that realization steals his lifeforce. He is a shell and will die a painful, lonely death
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