“Between Shades of Gray” starts to end with Lina’s 16th birthday. She thinks everyone forgot but doesn’t know that they have a surprise party for her. Just when the “party” was ending they found out her father was still alive. One morning the NKVD burst into their hut giving them 10 minutes to get all their stuff to take them away. They were loaded onto trucks, separated alphabetically. When it’s their turn to get on, she says good-bye to Andrious and sits down to find their special stone. They were on their way to the dock to be put on boats, but got to shower and feast before then. They have been traveling for a couple weeks but don’t know where they are going. They are all going crazy on this boat. A woman has tried to kill her daughter then herself. Lina found out why she and her family have been deported and is really upset now. Another snowstorm has hit them, but even harder then before. They are down to eating frozen owls. On Jan.5 of the following year Elena Arvydus passed away. Lina and Jonas are planing to build a coffin for her instead of having the NKVD deal with her…or the foxes. When they went to bury her mother, Lina had a moment alone with her. After a few moments of silencs, she heard someone and it was one of the NKVD her mother had associated with. He came up to comfort Lina with her loss. The “man who wound his watch” finally died too. One morning when it was just Lina and Jonas, she saw something bright and shiny. The sunrise. The conflict at the end of the book was an internal conflict -ch. vs.self- because Lina was coping with the death of her mother and having to raise her brother. My favorite quote from the ending of this book was “A tiny sliver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon”(336). It was my favorite quote because it was the quote the finished the book and tied everything together. It was a great ending.