- The last child is boarded onto the spaceship, and a monk stands in the hatch.
- He wipes the sand from his shoes, watches the mushroom clouds in the distance, and bids the world a farewell.
- This is not just the end of the world as he knows it, but the end of the world period.
- The spaceship launches toward an unknown future in the heavens.
- In the ocean, nuclear fallout kills the shrimp first, and then the fish.
- A lone shark swims out to the old, clean currents.
- There, he is very hungry.
- Kind of like how we here at Shmoop always hanker for pizza after a long, fun day of making you laugh.