Theo Decker, who has secretly kept the famous painting The Goldfinch since his mother died in a museum bombing, finally helps return it after a violent confrontation in Amsterdam.

Leni Allbright’s mother Cora shoots and kills Ernt, Leni’s abusive father, to save Leni, then takes the blame.

It is revealed that Elwood Curtis died trying to escape the Nickel Academy and that his friend Turner has lived for decades under Elwood’s name.

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John the Savage, unable to live in the World State, hangs himself in a lighthouse after a crowd turns his self-punishment into entertainment.

Alice wakes on the riverbank and realizes that Wonderland was a dream.

Citra Terranova wins the contest to become a Scythe and takes the name Scythe Anastasia, and she secretly spares Rowan Damisch.

Elsa Martinelli, a mother who fled the Dust Bowl to California, is shot and killed while protecting workers during a strike.

Humanity wins the war against the zombies after years of struggle, mostly by shifting to defensive strategies and taking back land block by block.

After the Boy recovers from scarlet fever, the doctor orders his beloved, worn-out Velveteen Rabbit burned with his other germ-filled toys.