John and Lorraine, two teenagers who befriended the lonely widower Mr.

John Grady Cole, after being jailed in Mexico and losing Alejandra, the hacienda owner’s daughter, recovers his horses and kills the captain who murdered his young friend Blevins.

Ann Burden, who believed she was the last person alive after a nuclear war, escapes from John Loomis, the scientist who tried to control and assault her.

The ambitious Becky Sharp ends the novel living respectably in England, possibly having helped kill her rich admirer Jos Sedley for his insurance money.

Tricked by Iago into believing his wife Desdemona has been unfaithful, Othello smothers her in their bed.

Llewelyn Moss, who took two million dollars from a drug deal gone wrong, is killed off-page by Mexican cartel gunmen, not by the hitman Anton Chigurh.

Eddie Spinola, who used the brain-boosting drug MDT-48 to become a Wall Street star, runs out of the pills and faces deadly withdrawal.

Police chief Martin Brody, oceanographer Matt Hooper and shark hunter Quint go after the great white shark terrorizing Amity.

Forrest returns to Alabama after a string of wild adventures and learns that Jenny has married someone else and has a son, little Forrest, who is his.

Darrow, a Red miner secretly carved into a Gold, wins the brutal Institute by storming Olympus and taking the cheating Proctors prisoner.