You can tell the reader what happened tro the main character or end it in a heroic ending. Since it is fiction, base the ending on your story.
<span>He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their conversation—with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite differently from before.
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You need a thesis statement in your intro paragraph. "Even" in the first sentence is capitalized even though it is after a comma. Rather than just giving background, try to relate the background info to examples in the novel.
