“I guess I felt . . . hopeful,” Meg said. “Jonas’s world is scary and unfair and confusing, but he gets to escape it in the end. And even if we don’t really know what’s waiting at the bottom of the hill, those lights down below make me feel like it’s someplace nice. So, maybe, I don’t know, whenever things feel scary and unfair and confusing for us, there’s another, nicer place that we could find, too.”
