How does cider house rules end

Larch provides a medically safe, albeit illegal, abortion, Homer leaves with them to work on Wally's family apple farm. Wally goes off to war, leaving Homer and Candy alone together. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house?

What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him? The life of Homer Wells, a precocious orphan who leaves his lifelong home and his loving tutor, Dr. Candy is going to stay with Wally. Homer gets a letter that Dr. Larch died from his ether habit. Homer returns home, and with those spiffy credentials, takes over as doctor. Mary Agnes seems pleased she has a crush on him.

The nurse tells Homer is heart is fine; Larch swapped the x-ray with Fuzzy's to keep Homer from being eligible to fight in the war.

Homer reads the boys a story, and exits after saying the same thing Larch said when wishing them goodnight. He said so himself. He just leaves me here. What does he want? He wants me to wait for him? Oh, God he knows me. He knows I'm not good at being alone. This was right. I know this was right. Homer Wells : You're right. The arrival of Wally and Candy opens a door to the outside, and Homer rushes through it. Only after he has discovered himself can he chart his future.

The movie is also about the relationships between parents and children. Nearly everyone in the film fills the role of a child, a parent, or, in one case, both. Of course, this is the cycle of human life - children grow up to become parents, so Hallstrom and Irving are merely illustrating this truth.

Larch is the ultimate father despite his assertion that he is the "caregiver to many [and] father to none" , and the orphans are the ultimate children.

There's Mr. Rose and his daughter, and Wally and his mother. Homer is the lone character who transitions from one role to the other. He leaves St. Clouds as a boy and returns as a man. Relationships in The Cider House Rules are complex, and the movie never condescends to or judges its characters. Larch and Homer are more like father and son than mentor and pupil.

The boys and girls at the orphanage have forged a strong bond as a result of the shared experiences of loneliness and dejection - each time a family comes to adopt, all but one of them will be disappointed. It's a pleasure to see an orphanage not straight out of Dickens although there are plenty of Dickensian references throughout the film - at story time, the novel being read is David Copperfield. In fact, there's more of a sense of family here than exists in many traditional households.

And there's a tremendous feeling of mixed poignancy and affection every evening when Dr. Candy will have to choose, and that's not something she is good at. Meanwhile, Homer's relationship with the other apple pickers migrant workers who show up every summer to start work, then head south for the winter becomes increasingly convoluted the more he gets to know about them and their well-guarded secrets.