The saddest ending in literature

calvin_0well i recall about a poem (forget its name) about a salesmen who buy a financial plan who support his life that expire when he reach 50 year old (or it is 60), he life happily and freely on an island until the day come, when the finacial plan expire, he try to kill himself by sleeping while buring some charcole, unfortunely he got rescue and he become a retard and misserable for the rest of his life.

I remember reading that one.
It was in the school's scylibus
I remember the title now ;D
Its "The Lotus Eater"

I forgot the title of the book, but this kid was searching for his dad, and he got mixed up in some terrorist organization from Italy (not the Mob) in order to help him find him. All he had to do was work for them. By the end of the book, he finds out that the group had killed his dad before the kid came to them, and when he tried to hide from them, he ended up being shot by a sniper (from the organization) from a building across the street as he left his apartment building....well, it's either that, or the ending of Half-Blood Prince

I've got another one i just thought of. All four books in the Virtual War saga had very sad endings.

Can this be included?: The Illiad. paris, hector, achilles, and a whole lot more died. The trojans lost. it was really sad...

timmy1991 · #22I forgot the title of the book, but this kid was searching for his dad, and he got mixed up in some terrorist organization from Italy (not the Mob) in order to help him find him. All he had to do was work for them. By the end of the book, he finds out that the group had killed his dad before the kid came to them, and when he tried to hide from them, he ended up being shot by a sniper (from the organization) from a building across the street as he left his apartment building....

That would be Scorpia.

crimson089 · #24Can this be included?: The Illiad. paris, hector, achilles, and a whole lot more died. The trojans lost. it was really sad...

I would say the Iliad counts, a great read also, everyone should read that and Anthony Esolen's translation of Dante's Inferno (Divine Comedy). But, I'm going to have to agree with TirithRR, Red Fern was downright depressing at times.

I agree with the book thief, that ones pretty depressing
Has anyone read Gifted by Nikita Lalwani? That's got a pretty sad ending I think. In which an extremely bright child is pushed by her father to the point where she can't take it any more and puts herself in care..
Also I don't remember the name, but when I was a little kid I read this book... It seems really nice and happy but then she has a miscarriage and is haunted by the baby, then at the end she dies of carbon monoxide poisoning. I looked at it the other day and was like, daaamn is that really a kids book?!(I must admit its a bit stupid, but The Key by Marianne Curley totally made me cry when Rochelle died :'( I suppose I just get a little too involved!)

For me its The Green Mile by Stephen King, The story is just too sad

Do Visual Novels count? If so, the White End of Saya no Uta is saddest ending I have ever read in my life, and is the only one that has made me bawl and sob like a baby.If not, the ending Of Mice and Men was sad too.

Griffandir14The saddest I have read are the ending of the His Dark Materials series (Pullman made Lyra and Will make very grown up decisions in the end)

That was going to be my choice exactly. I cried :(

SlicedandDiced · #28For me its The Green Mile by Stephen King, The story is just too sad

It may be sad, but I was angry at Stephen King for a long, long, long, long, long...time. I mean how?!! Why?!!

Hahaha for me it has to be tristan & iseult. I remember bawwing a bit after reading it a long time ago. Hardcore piece of classic lit.

dean89 · #31It may be sad, but I was angry at Stephen King for a long, long, long, long, long...time. I mean how?!! Why?!!

well he does make good tragedies... and horror and suspense and psychopathic and everything his best author of our life time =] that i give him

The short story "The Scarlet Ibis." God dammit, why?! He was just a child, he was just a boy! It's not fair...I'd post another story, a novel, but... I'm afraid some of those on this forum -coughs- would kill me after discovering the book's premise... Even though it's an autobiography?

Twilight, because it makes me cry to think that the once dark, mysterious, blood-sucking, awesome vampires have now turned into a sissy, sparkling, all-over lame creatures.But seriously, I'd have to say either Anne Frank's Diary or Deathly Hallows.

Replying to #35

MARRY ME.

timmy1991 · #22he ended up being shot by a sniper (from the organization) from a building across the street as he left his apartment building....

Spoilers

Spoiler

He doesen't die , there are 3 books after this one, a new one has just been released. However ive never read it.

I read a book called Red Rage about a skits girl who was a loner and ended up getting expelled from the last school she could ever go to when she nearly killed the sister of a boy she likes because she thought the girl was his girlfriend.

the chinaman by stephen leather
builds up the character right through the book so you really feel for him, then right at the end....

stirgo1212 · #37Spoilers

Spoiler

He doesen't die , there are 3 books after this one, a new one has just been released. However ive never read it.

Well I just had to read that one for school, so I don't know how the rest are...