She took him back home with her after giving him porridge which tasted like seaweed soup according to him. A girl named Lettie appeared before them then and offered her help in getting rid of all these people so that she could take him away because she thought it would be better if he wasn’t around during this time since he might get scared or upset over what happened earlier. When they reached there, they saw that an opal miner had committed suicide inside it by hanging himself from a tree branch above them. His parents made some burnt toast for him for breakfast and left with one of the policemen in order to check out where they could find his dad’s car. The police called his family later on to say that they’d found the stolen car at the end of their street. However, when he went outside to get the comic from his father’s car, he found that the car was gone. The narrator’s father had brought home a comic book, and the narrator was very excited to read it. After this sad occurrence, he immerses himself in books and toys until his father brings home a black kitten named Fluffy as a replacement for Monster, who was run over by a taxi.
Not long after that, it’s time for him to celebrate his seventh birthday-but no one comes. He and his sister fight about whether or not to keep the door open at night (the narrator is afraid of the dark). The narrator is sad because he loves the room but moves into his sister’s room instead. To make money, they rent out the narrator’s bedroom to a new tenant.
The narrator is six years old when his family falls on hard times. Then suddenly, everything comes back to him-Lettie’s ocean and what happened on their last day together… The narrator says that she must be Mrs Hempstock because Lettie looked just like her grandmother (Old Mrs Hempstock). When he arrives at her mother’s house, Mrs Hempstock asks if she knows him. She moved away before she went to Australia.
The new house they built stands there now, but the farm at the end of the lane looks exactly as it did when Lettie lived there. He remembers the house he grew up in, and how his parents knocked it down when he was 16 years old. The narrator is driving to a funeral service. 1-Page Summary of The Ocean At the End of the Lane Overall Summary
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