Chatterbox: Blab About Books

I doubt anyone else has read this, but I said I'd make at least 1
new thread, so I did. Here's what it's about. Actually, it's more like
a summary, but since this isn't really a book I'd recommend, just
ignore spoilers  and read on, please, unless you're bored already, in
which case, feel free to go. Actually, the writing isn't bad, although
it isn't nearly descriptive enough, and the talking shell thing is well
done, considering that  the idea is ridiculous, and Nisha  is awesome,  and the plot
is well done, I suppose, even though it's cliched, but overall, the
main character ruins everything. Anyway, this is a very boring rant, but if you read it anyway, you'll see I have an idea on how to  make this thread useful.

A boy (who is a hopeless,
boring Gary Stu, by the way, and is always sorely tempted to do the
wrong thing when forced to make a decision, but does the right thing
anyway, and if you want his name, sorry, because I don't recall it, he
was too dull for me to pay attention—his only flaw was that he forgot
extremely important details whenever it was convenient for the
author—realistic, right? *smirk*) living in  India is visited by a Wise
Old Man whose name I don't remember either, although in this case it's
only because it's too long—he was a Stu as well, and extremely cliched,
of course, but still not a horrible character or anything— who tells
the boy that a talking conch shell had been stolen, and he has to go
put it back where it belongs, and the boy is really excited, because he
has to work for a tyrant and has always dreamed of something like this
happening, but his mother won't let him go, so the Wise Old Man cures
the boy's little sister of a depression she's in because she had to
watch a man die a few years ago, and she hated it, but the Wise Old Man
had the ability to wipe people's memories, so the sister forgot all
about it and became happy again, so the mother let the boy go with thet
Wise Old Man. Then a girl named Nisha (if I actually remember her name,
you can tell she's a much
better character than the others,
trust  me) appeared and begged to come with them. So they let her come,
because even though they didn't want anyone else with them, they
decided she would never let them go without her, and keep begging (I
wonder why they didn't just make her forget she wanted to go. It seems
like a plot hole to me.), so she came, but she wasn't informed where
the conch was kept (oh yeah, forgot to say that  the Wise Old Man had
gotten it back, but its rightful place was still with the Brotherhood
of Healers who helped the suffering world though magic given to them by
the conch, or else they'd run out of magic or something like that; I
don't remember the details, and the boy slept with the conch
so that it wouldn't be stolen by an Evil Society), and so they kept
travelling towards the Silver Valley where the Brotherhood lived,
and then the Evil Society attacked, and Nisha betrayed the boy and Man,
because the Evil Society posessed her, and then she made them leave her (I think... I don't exactly remember, because although this was one of the most exciting parts, it was quite a while ago when I read this), and then the Wise Old Man seemed to disappear, and Nisha and the boy finally managed to get the Conch Thieves to leave, but the Wise Old Man was gone, so they were scared.  Then a mongoose showed up and Nisha kept feeding it and treating it as a pet, which the boy angry because they had very little too eat even wiithout a pet. But, anyway, they kept travelling. When they reached the Silver Valley, the boy had to take some tests in order to be allowed in. While he was taking a test, Nisha confessed to himher theory that the mongoose was the Wise Old Man. Once he passed all the tests, he went in. He put the conch back where it belonged. Nisha was right, and the mongoose was the Wise Old Man. A Healer turned him back into his True Form. Nisha was allowed to join the Brotherhood, even though she was a girl (she had no family or friends other than the boy and the Wise Old Man, so she wanted to). The Stu-boy was given a choice. He could stay with the Brotherhood and help  the world a lot, or he could go back to his loving family who missed him a lot. He was shown what his  family was doing, and theywere eating dinner and going on about how much they missed him, and wished he would come home soon, and wondered if he was alive. Then he was told that the Brotherhood could make his parents forget he existed (using magic) and therefore allow him to join the Brotherhoodwithout causing his parents pain. He did so.

Is it just me, or does that seem wrong somehow? Let's make this a conclusion debate! They're something that Katie (not me, the other Katie) made up, in which you decide how a story should end. So, should he join the Brotherhood, or go home to his parents? Or should he do something else? Whichever side has the mostvotes by New Year's Day wins. You can always change your vote, but only until the deadline.

I say that he should decide to go to his parents, as it's wrong to  wipe someone's memory without permission. After telling them all he's done and decided, they tell him to go back and join the Brotherhood, so he can save lives and help the world. Then, with their permission, he joins the Brotherhood.  What do you think?

If anyone is still here by the time this is over, we can then do something similar, but instead of being about the ending, it will be about whether or not a certain moral is correct...