Blog #3- Alternate Ending

Spoiler Alert!! If you have not yet read the ending of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, DO NOT read this blog.

In the end of this novel Sarah attempts to run away again. She decided that the only way to keep her loved ones safe was to leave and never let her father find her again. So she stops by the hospital to say goodbye to Eric and then leaves. Then Eric breaks out of the hospital and calls Lemry so that they can stop Sarah from leaving. They find her at the Amtrak station and pull her back in the car with them. They convince her to stay and that everybody will be safe. A few days later Carver tells Eric and his mom he has to go on a business trip but that’s far from the case. He goes to Virgil’s house and finds him. He assaults him but catches him and brings him to the police. In the end Sarah is adopted by Ms. Lemry and Carver gets off the hook. It’s a happy ending to a sad story.
In my opinion the ending of this story would have been much more entertaining if there was more drama like the rest of the book. It seems that in the end, Crutcher just got tired and made it end quickly with little detail. If the reader could have been let in on Carver’s little secret or what actually happened in Reno while it was happening it would have been more interesting. Also the whole chase with Virgil and Eric seems a little unrealistic to me. It just doesn’t seem like that would really ever happen to a teen in real life.
However I do like the “happy” ending to the whole situation. I agree with the author’s choice to make it all work out in the end. If he had let Virgil go or someone had died it just wouldn’t have been as satisfying.