Paul Sheldon, held captive by his “number one fan” Annie Wilkes, finishes the novel she forced him to write, then sets fire to what she thinks is the manuscript, and in the brutal fight that follows, Annie is fatally injured.
Beth March dies of the lingering effects of scarlet fever, Amy marries Laurie, and Jo, after rejecting Laurie years earlier, marries the kind German professor Friedrich Bhaer.
After the dinosaurs break loose on Isla Nublar, Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and the survivors escape by helicopter while the Costa Rican military bombs the island.
In a rigged fencing match, Laertes wounds Hamlet with a poisoned sword, Gertrude drinks poisoned wine meant for Hamlet, and Hamlet finally kills King Claudius before dying himself.
Bruno, the nine-year-old son of the commandant of a Nazi death camp, crawls under the fence in borrowed striped clothes to help his friend Shmuel search for Shmuel’s missing father.
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.
