Thursday, December 30, 2010

Can anybody provide an alternative ending for "An Astrologer's Day" without adding any characters?

I provided four possible endings
below:


Perhaps, you could change the ending by having Guru
Nayak recognize the astrologer. They could have a confrontation about the time the
astrologer stabbed him with the knife. Nayak could fight with the astrologer and stab
him, leaving him for dead. Then, after Guru Nayak fled the scene, someone could pass by
and hear the astrologer groaning. The passerby could get medical help for the astrologer
and save his life. Then Nayak could be even with the
astrologer.


Another possible ending could be that Guru
Nayak could recognize the astrologer and the two of them could perhaps talk out the
problem. Since it had been years ago, perhaps the astrologer could apologize and Guru
Nayak could accept his apology and some money as payment for the deed of stabbing him
years ago. Guru could tell how he had been down on his luck. He could thank the
astrologer for everything, and the ending could be a happy
one.


If you would prefer, you could have Guru recognize the
astrologer. The two of them could fight. In self defense, the astrologer could actually
kill Guru Nayak this time. Then the astrologer could rid himself of the guilt he had
carried all these years, realizing that someone like Guru Nayak is always looking for
trouble. In self defense, the astrologer would realize that he had to kill Guru
Nayak.Then his conscience would be cleared in that Nayak was an unreasonable
man.


You could have Guru Nayak recognize the astrologer.
The two could have a violent argument. Then the astrologer's wife and children could
come looking for the astrologer and save the astrologer from being killed. In the face
of the astrologer's children, Guru Nayak could feel apologetic for being so aggressively
violent with the children's father. Guru and the astrologer could calm down, apologize
one to another. Then the astrologer could invite Guru to his home for a late night
dinner. The two of them could sit down to a hearty meal and talk out their differences
after all these years or the astrologer could poison him at
dinner.

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