That Ending

[Huda]

I hated the ending. I was left unsatisfied. :( I don't think she made it.

[Amber]

Um, what are you guys talking about? We do know for sure she died. The last page of the book is Liz coming home on crutches, and her mother asking if she needs help, Liz saying no, then she finally says yes. We do know that she made it...

[Kylie]

Oh wow, I never thought for a second that the ending wasn't clear. TO me the ending is the triumph of the book - it shows that people can change, in a very simple exchange of dialogue. Liz's mother offers help - the thing she had withheld for fear of being overhearing like her own parents. Liz accepts help, the thing she had never been able to do, which created the self destructive spiral she went in to.

The importance of genuine human connection is what makes this book so powerful - when you had her friends basically tell Liz that if she pulled through, then they could all beat their own demons, she had to survive, so that we know that they too can make it.

[Sabrina]

I definitely agree with Kylie on how the book ended. But i actually kinda wanted the girl to die.

[Allie]

I also thought the ending was pretty clear, which was that she lived. I was sort of disappointed by that. The book seemed to be setting it up that she was going to die, and that she wanted to. But all of a sudden she was alive with absolutely no explanation.

[Patricia]

I'm another who thought the ending was clear.
It finishes with her going home on crutches and like the others have already said, her mother offers to help her and at first she says no, then she says yes.

In my mind that means she survived and eventually went home.
I do think the author left the ending until the very last sentence.