How Does Garp Write An Epilogue

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“‘An epilogue,’ Garp wrote, ‘is more than a body count. An epilogue, in the disguise of wrapping up the past, is really a way of warning us about the future.’” (Garp, 468) Garp said this, and he loved epilogues. An epilogue is at the end of the book after the story that tells us what happens to our beloved characters. It is defined as a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened. In the epilogue of this book, they don’t focus so much on gloomy details. They do however mention how the characters die, but they mainly focus on the good, more positive details of their lives. Garp had a building named after him, eventually the building was used for storage but they said