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Im not sure what youre referring to but in Chapter 47 (the expert) theres a discussion of what may have happened to Chases footprints (short version: the tide), there probably wouldnt be any part in the book where kya admits to killing chase and covering her tracks since thats supposed to be ambiguous until the very end, Good summary wonderfully Very help for me. Twist number two: Tate also finds Chase's missing necklace and a poem about predatory female fireflies. Set in 1950s and 1960s North Carolina, the narrative blends . Kya had planned the murder in fine detail and covered her tracks including by careful study of the bus schedule. Tate searches their Marsh home and finds Chase's missing shell necklace along with some of Kya's poems. Reflecting back to the necklace I remember this was a very special shell but couldnt remember the scenario when Kya gave it it Chase. ), Summary and Review for Where the Crawdads Sing, Everything We Know about the Where the Crawdads Sing Movie. The presence of the shell on a rawhide necklace ends up in her subfloor is a question I dont see answered. Loved the movie. Awful book. So how did Chase get to the tower?? Remember she is really good at giving people the slip, so he never saw her leave or come back. My biggest disappointment from this book was that, even though you know Kya ate natural, and was a very slim woman (who I would imagine being in great health) she died way too early in life. Did the letter tell pa and he went after her? The females got what they wantedfirst a mate, then a mealjust by changing their signals. Kya is ostracized and shunned by most of her neighbours. Very probably she used the phone in the city at the hotel to call him to meet her there. She was abandoned to survive by herself, and she has who do you think you are?! I do not recommend this book or this author. She had no vaccines, but little enough interactions with other humans that she could have avoided contracting illnesses or diseases. Hence why she wasnt so concerned or over worried because she didnt actually kill him. Kya took possession of the shell. It is also believed that they produce sounds to alert other crayfish to predators, or to attract a second predator to prey upon the predator.. Discuss the importance of art in Kyas life. :), 20 Best Book Club Books for 2022 (New & Anticipated), Best Mystery & Thriller Books for 2022 (New & Anticipated), 20 Best Books with Asian American Protagonists (for Adults), Persephone by Madeline Miller: What We Know, Books to Movies & TV in 2022: 25+ Adaptations Coming Soon, Your email address will not be published. How do we not know that Chase went looking for Kya one evening (she was gone visiting her publisher for the first time), and his wife followed Chase out to the Marsh? The type of complexity used for the trip back from Greenville to kill Chase was out of character for Kya. or does he go the entire book without the knowledge of the attack and is left with the thought of her as a murderer, the only motive being abandonment? There are little hints and descriptions about her throughout the book: part of me thinks it might be symbolic of her mother in some way but im not sure. I only saw the movie perhaps the book had these answers? Word Count: 415. The murderer question bothers meI just finished the book: Kya did NOT kill Chase. I think Kya didnt want to take the stand because she killed him . They move in together, hiring someone to create a lab and make some home improvements so that they can spend their lives there. Im hosting a book club about Where the Crawdads sing and needed help remembering sweets she ate in the book. As far as her not showing remorse for killing Chase, after Chase bruised her face and and tried to assault her, she went to the reading house, she watched and thought about insects killing their mates. He just never came back. Kya and Tate were tossing it back and forth while boating. Interestingly enough, though, some of the less impressive males (Tate) find ways to trick females into thinking that theyre the alpha males, doing so by strutting about loudly with their bodies puffed up to look larger than they actually are. I never saw that coming. I cant imagine how kya could find disguises and lure Chase on her own. Lots of interesting ideas and connections. It unknown what city Barkley Cove was based on. I think Delia is reliving her relationship with her own Mom through the title. How would he know that information only one day after Chase had passed. One boy, tanned and dark haired looked like Joidie (assuming she looks like her brother). Ma used to say that. Kya remembered Ma always encouraging her to explore the marsh: Go as far as you canway out yonder where the crawdads sing., Just means far in the bush where critters are wild, still behaving like critters.. And for the person wondering how Kya learned to speak correctly, if you read a lot, you do learnand her mother was intelligent and taught the children many things, such as never to say aint., Were the hundred dollar bills that she paid off the property with really bills that would have been used in the 1960s? I had to get it out before I forgot. Kya raised herself from the age of 5 in a swamp? Being isolated was one thing; living in fear, quite another.). A possible explanation for why Kya took the shell from Chases dead body: in order to use it to frame Tate. There was no mention of her during the investigation nor trial. Would be nice to hear about Tates perspective all the years he was gone and thought of Kya, or even visited from afar. Especially since driving to Raleigh makes more sense? What was her reaction when he came home battered after Kias attack. How did Chase get to the fire tower that night? She took the necklace back as a way of taking back her power from him. She kills him to survive because she knows he will eventually hunt and eat her/kill her. So, it . Im hoping that someonemaybe the illustrator, or Delia Owens or Reese Witherspoon will see how nice it would be to actually publish those books! Then tried to assault her again and she pushed him in self defense and he fell accidentally. The small moments, when he played harmonica, are glimpses of when he had a soul as Kya put it, and these were the parts of him that maybe Kya brought out and that was partially why he was also caught up with her. According to the story, it ended up on Tates boat. Did she have his phone number? Struggling with distance learning? Female insects, Kya thought, know how to deal with their lovers. [lovers is plural !] Nooit gedacht dat ik dit boek zou uitlezen, alhoewel ik het niet voor mogelijk hou dat een meisje dat n dag naar school gaat, zo grote resultaten behaald. She knew her father would throw the last punch and he was abusive towards her. No,he didnt knew for sure but may have doubts..he was pretty sure Kya would make it out of the case and they would soon be exploring lagoons..So he didnt believe she would have murdered chase but the evidences somehow could atleast convince him to have doubts..which he might never confront to her due to fear of losing her. Who is the family who comes to visit in the old red truck? Discovering Amanda Hamilton, Poet in Where the Crawdads Sing. He could have been anywhere. Could it be that she had no memory? there was an older lady, tall like Miss Clark, who had gray hair, short with curls, like a permanent wave. p.315. It seemed like a perfect name for a boy who was chasing a girl the way he was chasing Kya. What is it that Kya wrote .. something like .. something bad or evil must die so that the good survives. That evening, she watches, Looking at Kyas poems, Tate finds one called , Would not have made it through AP Literature without the printable PDFs. Does he die? Did she mention it earlier? She then removes his shell necklace. She saw that she did not want to, nor did she deserve to, live in fear because a predator decided to target her. Hi Jennifer Marie Lin, I always thought that she accidentally killed Chase and then covered her tracks and everything. Kya knew judgment had no place here. However, if this theory were true, it was not in Jumpins character to murder ( I never saw anything in his character in the novel or the movie ) and considering the time and place they were living in, it could be very, very risky if he were caught. I love your take on the murder. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Or when she is older and on trial, why do none of them but her brother check on her? Looking deep inside the cardboard box, he finds something else: the shell necklace that Chase wore until he died. Im sure thats something she just didnt know about and did not think of at the time. Dont forget that the one night when Jumpin was returning back home at the end of the day and was being harrassed by some boys, it was Kya who threw the rock at them to save Jumpin. [33] Did she think she was pregnant? I am having a hard time visualizing how he walked in the fire house and them stumbled backwards? The female firefly that Kya watches eat a potential mate represents the same kind of power that she herself taps into when she uses her own sex appeal to lure Chase into a death trap. The fire tower is close to town. 3. Isnt it the same hat Tate and she were throwing back and forth? You dont kill a human being because of your circumstances. Having been forced into the public eye during her trial, Kya retreats back into a life of relative isolation, never going to town again for the rest of her days. I thought Tate found the Poems and shell necklace under a loose floor board, in the book? The book does not explicitly state Kyas reasons for keeping the shell necklace. Looking forward to a beautiful movie. I would really like to understand the meaning of some of the poems in the book. Has Delia mentioned any reasoning behind why she chose for Kya and Tate not to be able to have children? There was nothing premeditated in her at all. What was it used for? What say you? Good question. Tell me why tate dropped his red wool cap, jumping picked it up and rubbed it on his shirt, then handed it back to tate? Tate also knew how to cover up tracks. The novel received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. Did tate still love kya even after finding out that she killed chase andrew. Was it just a mistake that late in the book it says Jumpin tells Kya the day after she gets back from her trip that Chase is dead and everyone is talking about the shell necklace he always wore being missing. Safety and survival. I wanted to say that I think another reason the ski cap was such a big deal was to make the reader think that maybe Tate could have killed chase. Tate will protect Kya and Chase knew Kya was assaulted after all. Really? Been together for more than 40 years and never ever have that conversation. The incident in question is only very tenuously connected to Delia Owens, but if you are curious, feel free to read the discussion of Slates Delia Owens expose. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. She would not have know Kya was out of town. And why would she leave the hat out in the open when she was so careful to cover her tracks in every other way? A central question of "Where the Crawdads Sing," adapted to film from Delia Owen's popular novel through Lucy Alibar's screenplay, is: Who killed Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson)? "My students can't get enough of your charts and their results have gone through the roof." The village grows into a city, but Tate and Kya never visit either way. This gives them time to execute their plan to kill Chase. She was familiar with clothing and liked changing costumes as in the foreshadowing of waiting for Tate in a balerina dress on the 4th of July.She again disguised herself to return to Ashville. Kya watched others. She was always looking out for him to jump her and listening for his boat. Petit fours, blackberry jam, Sugar Daddy (candy), caramel cake. a defendant isnt required to testify because of the 5th amendment (right against self incrimination). Just like her violent father, after Kya escapes from Chases attempted rape, she knows he wont let it end with her having the victory.He will come back even more determined to finish what he started. The novel is set in the fictional town of Barkley Cove, North Carolina in the 1950s. She came home and heard about the murder and Realized it was Tate and being an expert in the swamp covered up the footprints in the marsh and wore the fibers to clean it up to protect Tate. Could Chase have fallen because the grate was removed by her but she wasnt there but came back to get the necklace? Her tracks are then covered by the tide theory. And later the cap might have ended up with her later when tate and kya were tossing it..or maybe this is completely different cap which belonged to kya..About he necklace..it represented a part of kya which she gave to chase to supress her loneliness-And love itself passing ,To whatever it was before it began.So clearly proves that Kya is retrieving a part of herself which she gave to Chase.. He must have known? Yes..I agree its not in tune with Kyas character but throughout the book from Pa treating Ma harshly,Ma living her kids alone to survive, to fireflies mating process Kya learned that she didnt want to live in fear like Ma-waiting where the next fist would hit..Either Chase had to leave her forever which he wouldnt as he claims that she belongs to him..or she had to live Marsh forever..But Marsh was her only home..not just home but something close to mother.The wilderness taught her she had to find a way to survive-from fireflies giving deceiving signals to second mates and later killing them..the fireflies indeed knew a way to deal with their lovers.Kya learned more by nature than humans(she never really lived with them as they never accepted her the way she is like the marsh).So she accepted and played by the rule of nature than civil human moral code..So she had to kill Chase in order to survive and protect her.More importantly this is more about how situations influence Kyas decision than her character..she had no choice as nobody would believe her harrassment story and Chase would never stop. Excellent story by the way. Was this to make us think Tate killed Chase? A psychologist once told me that when an evil family member dies, people in the family rarely if ever mention that persons name ever again. The meaning of the title Where the Crawdads Sing comes from Delia Owenss childhood experiences (something her mother used to say). This ultimately enables her to avoid feeling helpless against the possibility that Chase might come and try to rape her for a second time. I believe Chases mother has mentioned that she waited until the autopsy was completed and received the complete report. You could sense that the sheriffs were not relying on gossips around the town as it contains more false information and drifts the investigation further away from what has happened. The sheriff came to tell him his father was dead. I believe she was afraid he was going to kill her. Why did Chase wear the necklace all the time? 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