The Big Picture Every film that's adapted from a book goes through changes. It's impossible not to. Even films that aim to be as faithful as possible to their source material have to cut settings, characters, dialogue, and entire scenes due to the limited scope of movies. There's no way to take a 300-page novel and film it word for word in a two-hour movie.
In the novel, the climax is completely different. Eric wants to sacrifice himself as they have their final proof that the world is ending around them, but Andrew talks him out of it. Neither one of them will die. Instead, they walk away together under the collapsing sky. They have experienced so much in life as one, from the rejection and anger directed at them for being a gay couple, to the fears of being adopted parents. They will face the end of the world together as well.
After Wen's death, everything seems to stop mattering. Who cares that the world is coming to an end? Wen just got shot to death. Innocence is dead and the excitement of the book dies with it. That doesn't mean that the novel is horrible after that. It's still a good read and the ending of Eric and Andrew refusing to sacrifice themselves, then walking into the end together is a brave and touching one that may even work better than what Shyamalan did with the film.
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