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Post by colette on Jun 29, 2018 12:20:06 GMT -5
I am a big fan of Dewey/Kit but I afraid that Lemony implied that Kit didn't love Dewey. No doubt that she respected and admired him a lot. But I am not sure if she loved him. Possibly Lemony wants us to think that Kit's true love was Olaf but she was ashamed of her feelings and tried to persuade herself that she loves Dewey whom she considered more worthy of love.
The reason I suspect this is the poem Kit tells before her death:
The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
It possibly( not necessairy) means that Kit loves Olaf( he is the choice her heart made as opposed to Dewey who is the choice her mind made).
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Jul 10, 2018 12:06:12 GMT -5
I don't think Kit loved Olaf. I have no comments on whether she truly loved Dewey, or just mutually admired and respected him, but that seems tangential to the story - he was the one she chose to have a child with, which is what matters the most. I don't read anything in the books as an implication that she had any romantic feelings toward Olaf at the time of her death.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Jul 10, 2018 20:18:00 GMT -5
I can't say for certain whether or not Kit loved Olaf, like most of the backstories revealed in The End, it's quite ambiguous and could be read a number of different ways.
Personally, I interpreted their final scene, not as a declaration of love, but instead two dying people who had known each other for much of their lives reminiscing about old poetry they had read, reflecting on the choices that led them to where they were.
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Post by colette on Jul 11, 2018 5:56:35 GMT -5
I can't say for certain whether or not Kit loved Olaf, like most of the backstories revealed in The End, it's quite ambiguous and could be read a number of different ways. So true. I am not certain either. It's just a guess. |
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Post by Foxy on Nov 15, 2018 11:13:22 GMT -5
The reason I suspect this is the poem Kit tells before her death: The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. I am kind of wondering about this, too. Was she saying her life was over when their relationship (Kit/Olaf) was over, or was she saying Olaf's life was over when their relationship was over? I would be more inclined to say she was reciting this poem as Olaf's feelings for her, and then he next quotes a poem which in its entirety suggests Count Olaf was suggesting his parents messed him up, which I suppose he is implying messed their relationship up? Or at the very least, led him to do despicable acts of crime. I think she loved them both at different times, and at the end of her life, she loved Dewey. |
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