Izzy Richardson sets fire to her family’s house and runs away, and Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl quietly leave Shaker Heights.

After months in a psychiatric hospital and electroconvulsive therapy, Esther Greenwood recovers enough to appear before a board of doctors who will decide if she can leave.

Marcellus the octopus leads Tova Sullivan to the truth: her son Erik, who vanished at sea, had a son, and that son is Cameron, the young man working with her at the aquarium.

Yossarian refuses a deal that would send him home as a hero in exchange for praising his colonels.

The little prince, who travelled from his tiny asteroid and met the narrator, a pilot stranded in the Sahara, lets a snake bite him so he can return home to his beloved rose.

The novel never fully explains the disaster that cuts off power and communication across the country.

In Charles Perrault’s 1697 version, the wolf eats Little Red Riding Hood and the story ends there, followed by a moral warning girls about charming strangers.

Edmond Dantès avenges himself on the men who betrayed him, then leaves Paris with Haydée and sends Maximilien Morrel a letter that says all human wisdom is contained in the words “wait and hope.”

The Phantom, Erik, lets Christine and Raoul go after Christine kisses him on the forehead, and he dies soon afterward.

Charlie has a breakdown and is hospitalized after remembering that his late Aunt Helen abused him as a child.