I Was Re-reading Some Discworld Books, And It Really Struck Me How Different The Endings Of The Wee Free

I was re-reading some Discworld books, and it really struck me how different the endings of The Wee Free Men and Harry Potter were.

Harry Potter is all about how death is a nice thing, a good thing, that it's ok to lie down and die. And that is a good thing to know. But. But The Wee Free Men takes such a different approach.

Tiffany fights to live. It's a very selfish thing, and that's ok. That's the point. You have to want to live, so want. And the Discworld books don't make you fear death. Death is a major character. There is an entire book on why Death is important, is needed.

But when JK Rowling teaches children to die for other people, Terry Pratchet teaches kids how to live for themselves. And that's important.

Cassandra by ABBA // Fire of Troy by Kerstiaen de Keuninck // Cassandra by ABBA // Cassandra by Frederick Sandys // Cassandra by ABBA // Ajax and Cassandra, Solomon J. Solomon // Ajax and Cassandra, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein // Cassandra by ABBA // Cassandra’s Lament by Unknown // Cassandra by ABBA 

if you try to run me through with your blade i'll just pull it in deeper until we're face to face and kiss you on the mouth. with tongue.

IN A DISTANT and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists waver and part . . .

See . . .

"GNU Sir Terry Pratchett" - L-Space Wiki / Ursula K. LeGuin / "Terry Pratchett" - Wikipedia / "GNU" - Urban Dictionary / Going Postal by Terry Pratchett / Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett / Brandon Sanderson / Paul Kidby / The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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