Downer Ending: Matteo saves not even half of the amount of children he had hoped to save, and his little brother has been dead all along. But Matteo himself sees it as a happy ending because he saved someone.
I don't know the book well enough to disentangle this, but it seems to me that one story can't be examples about both these tropes?
I don't know the book well enough to disentangle this, but it seems to me that one story can't be examples about both these tropes?