Count of Monte Cristo?

Question

Ok.. So I read the book, but I am horrible at summarizing things into a a couple of sentences......

How can I summarize the Resolution of the book???

Answer 1

Just the resolution of the book?

I feel your pain, I'm terrible at writing summaries as well, but perhaps you'd like to use this as a general guide (it's from the Wikipedia article on The Count of Monte Cristo):

Redemption

Matters, however, are more complicated than Dantès had anticipated. His efforts to destroy his enemies and reward the few who had stood by him become horribly intertwined. Not having foreseen the child's death, Dantès begins to question his role as an agent of a vengeful God. This temporarily deters him from his course of action. During this period of doubt, he questions himself. Dantès comes to terms with his own humanity and is finally able to forgive both his enemies and himself. It is only when he is sure that his cause is just and his conscience is clear, that he can fulfil his plan.

It is thus that Dantès shows some mercy to Danglars, his final victim and the instigator of the plot that had him imprisoned to begin with. Several months after the Count's manipulation of the bond market, all Danglars is left with is a good reputation and some five million francs. The Count asks for the five million to fulfill their credit agreement. Danglars is forced to pay the money, but he then proceeds to embezzle five million francs from the hospitals, and flees to Rome to live in anonymous prosperity. On the way, he is kidnapped by the Count's agent, the celebrated bandit Luigi Vampa. There, in an ironic twist, Danglars is imprisoned the same way that Monte Cristo once was, and experiences for himself the horrors of imprisonment. Told that he will not be fed unless he pays, the miserly Danglars is starved into giving up all but 50,000 francs, which Monte Cristo has returned to the hospitals. Nearly driven mad by his ordeal, Danglars finally repents his crimes to Monte Cristo. His vengeance now tempered by mercy, Monte Cristo forgives Danglars, and allows him to leave with his freedom and the 50,000 francs he has left. Danglars discovers that the captivity has turned his hair white.

Maximilien Morrel is distraught because he believes his true love, Valentine, to be dead. He contemplates suicide after witnessing her funeral. Monte Cristo reveals himself to be the person who rescued Mr. Morrel from suicide years earlier. Maximilien is grateful and is persuaded by Monte Cristo to delay his suicide for a month. A month later, on the island of Monte Cristo, the count presents Valentine to Maximilien and reveals that he saved her from the poison attempt of her mother, and that Valentine's "death" was a ruse thought up by the Count himself. Monte Cristo then leaves the island and sends his friend Jacopo to deliver a letter to them which reveals that he has bequeathed the Monte Cristo island and his Paris mansions to Maximilien. Haydée offers Edmond (Monte Cristo) a new love and life.

Answer 2

gee... i don't think i can be of much help but i have read it before, some 2 or 3 years (so you probably would have very good reasons to doubt me) but i think it's about this guy, the ideal sort of guy any woman would dearly love to marry and his name is edmond. he's in love with this girl he's known, i think, for ages. but then during their wedding, there was some sort of set-up thing which he got imprisoned for. he spent his days in prison plotting ways on how to get out. he met this old man inside the prison. before they both escape the place, the old man died but not before he told edmond about this large fortune that seemed to belong to the old man in a far off island called monte cristo. to make the very, very, very long story short, edmond escaped, found the gold, became filthy rich, came back to his home town, found the girl he loves already married to her cousin(i think), was enraged and plans to get even. the son of his former love looks up to him and his former love recognized him. i think that girl he used to love died but she left her son in edmond's care. edmond, by the way gave enormous help to those people who were kind to him and who really cared for him before when he was still edmond (he changed is name after coming back). the story ended with, i think a scene where he was sailing away with a young girl, leaving his vast fortune to his former employer and good friend, and to the son of his former love...

yeah, i think it went something like that. anybody reading this, correct me if i'm wrong... =)