The Locket Conclusion

The conclusion of “The Locket” was not predictable and I was surprised that Edmund turned up alive after all and that the locket was stolen. I was surprised because the priest takes the locket off a dead soldier who he thinks is Edmund, Octavie mourns Edmund, also thinking he is dead, and finally, when the judge is telling Octavie to stop being sad, it seems as though he is telling her to move on with her life. It seems as though the rest of the story will be about how Octavie recovers from her sadness because of Edmund’s death.

I was surprised that Edmund was alive at the end because in the beginning, it seems that everyone is dead and the locket is taken off a dead soldier. Even though the locket is said to be a charm, after the battle, it seems the only people left on the field are dead. The priest finds one of the dead soldiers with the locket around his neck, and since the locket was Edmund’s the priest thinks the dead soldier is Edmund and sends the locket to Octavie.

I was also surprised that Edmund turns up alive at the end because Octavie mourns Edmund, also thinking he is dead and believes she will grow old and sad like her Aunt Tavie. She rereads the letter that came with the locket over and over again, and she thinks that it can’t be real. In the story, Octavie thinks, “Oh!

I was surprised because the priest takes the locket off a dead soldier who he thinks is Edmund, Octavie mourns Edmund, also thinking he is dead, and finally, when the judge is telling Octavie to stop being sad, it seems as though he is telling her to move on with her life and recover from her sadness even though Edmund is dead. At the end of the story when Edmund says the locket was stolen, that’s when I was surprised and realize that the nightmare he had of the serpent coiling around his throat was actually his messmate stealing the