Jennifer North dies by suicide after learning she has breast cancer, and Neely O’Hara’s career collapses into addiction.

The old man reading a love story to a woman with Alzheimer’s in a nursing home is Noah Calhoun, and the woman is his wife, Allie.

Poppy and Alex finally admit they love each other after years of friendship and one disastrous summer trip to Palm Springs.

Unlike the Disney film, the novel ends in death.

Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, digs under the fence at Auschwitz to help his friend Shmuel find his father, and both boys are killed in the gas chamber.

Uncas is killed by Magua, and Cora is killed by another Huron.

Ellie and her friends blow up Heron Bridge to stop an invading army, but Lee is wounded and Corrie is shot in the back.

After John Thornton is killed by the Yeehat tribe, Buck kills several of them and then joins a wolf pack.

After Napoleon’s defeat in 1812, Pierre Bezukhov marries Natasha Rostova, and Nikolai Rostov marries Princess Marya Bolkonskaya.

Amir rescues his half-brother Hassan’s son, Sohrab, from the Taliban official Assef and brings him to California after a long fight over adoption.