Explain Why The End Of A Cycle May Be Broken

I think that one of the generalizations connected to the story was that “cycles may be broken.” The reason that I believe this is because the continuing pattern was that the balloon would always follow the boy around, even though many people tried to stop it/him. The balloon would always find a way to be with the boy. But it was broken at the end, when the balloon was hit, and the cycle ended. Many of the other generalizations would not have worked. “The end of a cycle cause the cycles to begin again; a cycle may appear to have no beginning or end.” That does not work, because as it showed in the film, the cycle did have an end. The balloon died. The cycle was not able to start all over again. Now, I agree that the generalization that