Question: how does 20000 leagues under the sea end

title: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
text: Throughout the story Captain Nemo is suggested to have exiled himself from the world after an encounter with the forces that occupied his country that had devastating effects on his family . Not long after the incident of the poulpes , Nemo suddenly changes his behavior toward Aronnax , avoiding him . Aronnax no longer feels the same and begins to sympathize with Ned Land . Near the end of the book , the Nautilus is attacked by a warship of some nation that had made Nemo suffer . Filled with hatred and revenge , Nemo ignores Aronnax 's pleas for mercy . Nemo -- nicknamed `` angel of hatred '' by Aronnax -- destroys the ship , ramming it just below the waterline , and consequently sinking it into the bottom of the sea , much to Aronnax 's horror , as he watches the ship plunge into the abyss . Nemo bows before the pictures of his wife and children and is plunged into deep depression after this encounter . For several days after this , the protagonists ' situation changes . No one seems to be on board any longer and the Nautilus moves about randomly . Ned Land is even more depressed , Conseil fears for Ned 's life , and Aronnax , horrified at what Nemo had done to the ship , can no longer stand the situation either . One evening , Ned Land announces an opportunity to escape . Although Aronnax wants to leave Nemo , whom he now holds in horror , he still wishes to see him for the last time . But he knows that Nemo would never let him escape , so he has to avoid meeting him . Before the escape , however , he sees him one last time ( although secretly ) , and hears him say `` Almighty God ! Enough ! Enough ! '' . Aronnax immediately goes to his companions and they are ready to escape . But while they loosen the dinghy , they discover that the Nautilus has wandered into the Moskenstraumen , more commonly known as the `` Maelstrom '' . They manage to escape and find refuge on a nearby island off the coast of Norway , but the fate of the Nautilus is unknown . 

Answer: answer: Throughout the story Captain Nemo is suggested to have exiled himself from the world. Aronnax goes to his companions and they manage to escape and find refuge on a nearby island off the coast of Norway, but the fate of the Nautilus is unknown.