 What is the primary significance of the final scene?
The war spills out of Fox News, casualty figures scrolling across monochrome drone footage, attack helicopters circling over Caracas apartment blocks, pundits with bronzed skin and immaculate blond hair smiling from four-way split screens. It was constant warfare; every opinion she had became a battle, every decision she made a conflict. Dad is in the bathroom, and Sara has had enough of Fox and whichever war this is. She takes it out and cradles it in her hands, the dark screen fleetingly reflecting back her face before it jumps awake at her very touch, opening up to bathe her in blue light, in comfort and warmth and the familiar. Gently she closes the iPad and puts it down on the table, next to her plate.
 It shows that the media control runs deeper than the reader might have expected
 It shows that Sheryl is going to be okay in the end  It shows a subversion of expectations to add irony to the story  It shows that the media control runs deeper than the reader might have expected  It shows that Ed and Sara will really be able to settle their differences