Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
happiness with her. She is relatively new to freedom and life, and he charges her to
live richly and fully enough for both of them. H e lets go of life, confident of being
R E S U R R E C T E D in her heart, in her memories.
Rose herself goes to the edge of death, but is R E S U R R E C T E D as the lone
lifeboat searches for survivors in the sea of dead faces. In a final T E S T of all she has
learned from Jack, she summons the strength to swim to get a whisde from a dead
officer's lips, calling for rescue. W i t h that O l d Rose concludes her story, returning us
to the framing device in modern day and counting the toll of the Titanic's dead.
T h e robot sub leaves the wreck in peace and silence. On the research ship,
Lovett tosses away the cigar he had saved to celebrate finding the diamond, a little
S A C R I F I C E of an old personality trait. H e admits to Rose's granddaughter that he
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