Werner Pfennig, a German soldier, is killed by a mine after he rescues Marie-Laure from a captured house in Saint-Malo, and Marie-Laure survives the war.

Jim, a young British sailor haunted by his cowardice in once abandoning a ship full of passengers, finds redemption as a respected leader in the remote land of Patusan.

The pigs, led by Napoleon, become just like the human farmers the animals overthrew.

Guy Montag kills his fire captain, Beatty, and escapes the city, joining a group of exiles who each memorize a book.

Marcos, who works at a meat-processing plant where humans are raised as food, gets the “head” Jasmine pregnant and helps her give birth.

Haymitch Abernathy wins the Second Quarter Quell by turning the arena’s force field against the last tribute, but President Snow punishes him for defying the Capitol.

Nurse Ratched has Randle McMurphy lobotomized after he attacks her, and Chief Bromden smothers him with a pillow to free him.

After being tortured in the Ministry of Love, Winston Smith betrays Julia and gives up every belief he once held.

The last human survivors have been tortured for over a century by a supercomputer called AM, and Ted, the narrator, kills the other four to spare them further pain.

Paul Bäumer, the narrator, is killed in October 1918 on a day when the army report says “all quiet on the Western Front.” The book’s last lines are told by an unnamed narrator, who describes his calm face as if he were glad the end had come.