In every good novel, there must be a good ending. Whether the hero gets the girl at the end or the main characters ride off into the sunset, the ending must make the reader feel satisfied that they stuck through this novel to the end. However, in Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt, many can say that they have felt disappointed by the ending. The book ends in chapter 66 when the Weiss family receives their restored painting back from the restorer and finds out everything they added has been removed except for the ring and necklace Danni added. Many believe that the novel should have ended in chapter 65 with a bit more added to it. Chapter 65 is where Toby dies and when the family finally comes together with their relationship. In…show more content… One reason for this is that everything seems to wrap up in this chapter than in chapter 66. For example, when Toby is about to die, June’s mother finds out about the secret relationship June and Toby had. The family stays in the living room with Toby for a while, until it is eventually just Danni and June in the room. Danni tells Toby that she is sorry, and then the novel reads, “In the end it was just the two of us in the room. My mother and me. Toby’s body stilled, and she reached out and laid her hand on my shoulder. That was how one person’s story ended” (349). This shows that the strained relationship June and Danny had throughout the course of the novel has finally reconciled and amends were made. June’s big secret was revealed and Danni did not punish her for it, and June also let her mother be with her when Toby died. Another example on how things wrapped up in the novel was the realization that June and Greta get everything that Toby and Finn owned. This included Finn and Toby’s apartment and the room in the basement with all of Finn’s paintings and Toby’s stuff. June wonders whether her and Greta might meet up in the future when they are old and start living in the house together. Finally, a significant part of this chapter could have been a proper ending to the book. It was when June mixed Finn’s ashes with Toby’s. The novel states, “I expected my mother to argue about it,…show more content… The last paragraph shows June going to the woods to search for a sign of her old self, the one that hung out with Toby. The paragraph, “What if buried all those leaves is me? Not this me, but the girl in the Gunne Sax dress with the black zipper open” (351). This shows that June is unwilling to let go of the past and is still looking for fragments of her old self. This in depth character description should have been the end of the book, with June still trying to find out who she is in this world with the absence of Toby and Finn. This paragraph also shows how she is still unwilling to let go of Toby, and how she nonetheless misses him. This reveals just how much she cared about Toby and also how much she loved him even in death. In the end, the book should have ended at chapter 65 because of the better character description from the last paragraph of the