Chester Cricket, who accidentally rode a picnic basket from Connecticut to New York’s Times Square subway station, becomes famous for playing music and saves the Bellini family’s struggling newsstand.
Hanna Schmitz, a former Auschwitz guard serving a life sentence, learns to read in prison using tapes recorded by Michael Berg, her former teenage lover.
Jack Torrance is killed when the Overlook’s boiler explodes, destroying the hotel.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a murderer with a superhuman sense of smell, creates a perfume from the scents of murdered young women that makes everyone adore him, saving him from execution.
Yuri Zhivago, the doctor and poet whose life was torn apart by the Russian Revolution and civil war, dies of a heart attack on a Moscow tram in 1929.
Margaret Hale, who has inherited a fortune from her family friend Mr.
Tomas and Tereza, after years of his infidelity and the Soviet occupation of Prague, settle in a quiet village where Tomas drives a truck.
The Vicario twins kill Santiago Nasar after their sister Angela names him as the man who took her virginity, and nearly the whole town knew it would happen but did nothing.
Perry Wright, Celeste’s abusive husband, falls to his death on the night of the trivia event.
The final section reveals that Briony Tallis wrote the whole novel as an old woman and that Robbie and Cecilia never reunited, because Robbie died at Dunkirk and Cecilia was killed in the Blitz.