64 pages • 2 hours read
Marieke NijkampThis Is Where It Ends
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Chapters 10-12Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 10 Summary
Fifteen minutes after the shooting began, as the clock winds from 10:20 a.m. to 10:22 a.m., Chapter 10 closes as Autumn explores her responsibility in the day’s trauma and stands up before her brother to say: “Tyler, I’m here” (125).
Tomas breaks paperclips in the lock. Tomas’s one successful attempt gets interrupted by knocks from inside the auditorium. Tomas is unsure if the gunman will break through the doors any moment. When Sylv speaks, it’s revealed she does the knocking. She knocks a favorite song, and Tomas replies with the beat.
Meanwhile, Claire’s tangled between thinking about her brother, Matt, who is trapped inside the school, and the future romantic opportunity she imagines she will have with Chris, during the upcoming annual summer track team gathering: “We’ll toast our four years together, Chris and I” (119).
