Wracked with fear, Theo decides to forge the painting.

This only ends when a customer discovers that Theo has been selling forgeries and attempts to blackmail him, saying that he knows Theo is privy to the location of 'The Goldfinch.'Īnsel Elgort as Theo. Theo has spent years creating and selling fake antiques to save Hobie from bankruptcy. He is engaged to marry a childhood friend, though he is still in love with Pippa, who is living with a boyfriend in London. Theo is now a full partner in Hobie's antiques and furniture-repair business, and has moved his secret painting to a storage unit. The narrative then jumps forward eight years. Once again, the painting comes with him.ġ2 YA Books Coming to the Big Screen (or Netflix) in 2019 With nowhere to stay, Theo asks Hobie to take him in - and to Theo's delight, he learns that the cute red-haired girl, Pippa, is also living there.

Life in Las Vegas is made tolerable by his new friend until Theo's father dies while driving drunk, compelling Theo to go back to New York. They instantly bond over their mutual freedom and spend all their time together drinking and experimenting with drugs. There, Theo befriends the son of a Ukrainian émigré, Boris. Unfortunately, Theo's life is disrupted once again when his absent father returns and hauls him off to Las Vegas to live with him and his girlfriend, Xandra. Theo briefly moves in to his friend's lavish Park Avenue apartment and seeks out Hobie to return the ring, quickly warming to the man. Welty also points to the wall, and Theo, panicked and believing that the old man is pointing at the famed Carel Fabritius painting 'The Goldfinch,' takes it from the wall and runs. While navigating the rubble, he finds an old man whom he'd noticed earlier (because of the cute red-haired girl with him) and the man, Welty, gives Theo a ring and asks that he deliver it to his partner, Hobie.

Theo's mom is killed, along with several other visitors, though Theo is miraculously only wounded. His story starts off with a bang (literally), when he and his mom visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibition of Dutch masterpieces and find themselves victims of a bomb explosion. The novel is told from the perspective of Theodore 'Theo' Decker, a 13-year-old living with his beloved mother in New York City. 16 Books That Every Introvert Needs to Read

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