Ending?

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    • July 3, 2023 at 10:59 am #679
      Megan James
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        What did you think of the end of the book? Did it seem realistic that the owner would have such a change of heart after losing his son?

      • July 3, 2023 at 5:30 pm #722
        Anne Goff
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          The way everything came together at the end seemed not at all realistic to me. I didn’t really like the book, but the ending completely ruined it for me.  I don’t think Hazard Flint would have turned everything over so easily. Then to find out the good looking, kind, near perfect mine worker actually inherited everything. Oh come on.

        • July 3, 2023 at 7:19 pm #724
          Kelley O
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            I agree with Anne Goff, the change of heart at the end was completely unrealistic, as was the whole Clayton being the inheritor of the mine.

            • July 4, 2023 at 9:46 am #734
              Megan James
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                I also agree with both of you, I thought there was no way that things would have wrapped up so neatly. Hazard Flint would not have had such a major change of heart, anyone who could watch so many men get hurt or die can’t have much of a heart to begin with. But being able to let small children work in such dangerous conditions, watching them get maimed, killed, ground into machinery is a whole different level of heartlessness and greed.

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