: Re: Prologue and Epilogue in third person and chapters in first person doable? My current work is in first person. Well, it's a début so I didn't compare the benefits of first vs. third when

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In a sense, this is the whole point to an epilogue --if it had the same feel as the main narrative, it would just be the last chapter. Epilogues exist solely to solve the problem of authors wanting to tell the readers things that don't --for whatever reason --fit into the main framework of the novel (and the same is true for prologues).

That doesn't necessarily mean it's always a good idea. The beloved classic The Secret Garden has an epilogue so universally hated that it's actually omitted in most modern editions of the book.

NOTE: According to the comments below, it's possible that the "epilogue" I remember might actually have been a late addition by another author.

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