Students' Endings

Contemporary Writers’ Forum: Exercise

After Prof. Bharucha read her short story “The Benediction“ (without reading the ending!) students working in small groups were asked to write their own conclusions to the story. We then compared them to Prof. Bharucha’s text.

Here are two of the student endings, as well as the original one. Which ending do you prefer?

• Student ending 1
• Student ending 2
• Original ending