As she watches this, she sees that females in nature have a certain power that they can lord over males, since males are so eager to mate with them that they overlook certain dangers. Thats why he keep her secrets. The book was Brilliant! Someone here asked why Kya would have kept the red hat in her home if she ever thought about fiber evidence being used against her. She was always looking out for him to jump her and listening for his boat. Im inclined to agree that Kya just does NOT fit as the murderer. Yeah its pretty possible..If Kya is using disguises she must have went to the town or somebody had to buy it for her.And if she went to town to buy disguises..we would have more witnesses.So probably somebody helped her and since only Jumpin knew this..it might be him. Her past work (as a wildlife scientist in Africa), as well as the title of this novel, are a reflection of this. Obviously, legally it was definitely not justified. No one seems to mention this, but wouldnt Tate have known that Kya killed Chase, because he knew he had only recently given her the cap before the murder? 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. But to kill someone. But I believe she had helpno, no one else was on the tower but Kya and Chase, but she had help with the logistics of the whole thingvery probably from Jumpin, and perhaps her brother, who was in the military. The infamous red hat. Asheville is not a coastal town; its simply a large city that gets mentioned a few times in the book. Kya would have done anything to protect Tate. There are certain people who cant stand to lose, and who feel entitled to make their victims pay for fighting back. I was always intrigued by the reasons why Chase chose to wear the shell necklace gifted by Kya all the time. Kya is acquitted of murder charges and granted freedom at the movie's end . Tate had always wore a red hat, throughout the entire story. I dont think the book really got into why Kya wasnt put on the stand, but generally if a lawyer feels like a defendant is more likely to incriminate themselves or come off badly, then they wont testify. I still have questions about the red hat! The 2 shrimpers testified that Kya came out of the woods yelling that if Chase touched her again, shed kill him. Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the players. Also, was that her in disquise on the buses? I think its not about revenge here. But who taught her? It is the law of nature ( which she is a student of) to kill to survive. This section contains 565 words. Pretty far fetched. Yeah..thats a missing one..The shrimpers saw kya alone in the boat driving towards tower..so chase either came in his boat or by truck or bike..But nothing is mentioned about it.So maybe he was dropped from a truck or bike from his friends or something or there is a secret route from Barkley Clove to fire tower which he covered by walking as it is mentioned fire tower is close to the town. Just finished the book. Hi Im curious as to why Kia was upset and angry that she was put on trial for the murder when she was guilty? But I cant recall her motive for killing Chase. There is one poem about murdering Chase, and with it is Chases missing shell necklace, tying her to his murder. He had a bad heart, maybe a heart attack. Hi this is great! I absolutely loved and appreciated the movie and will be reading the book but Im from Asheville, NC and confused about the setting. The book does not explicitly state Kyas reasons for keeping the shell necklace. Quick and just. Simply put, Kya and Tate finally manage to live a happy life together. A poem titled "The Firefly" reveals that Kya murdered Chase . Did Tate and marsh girl ever have children? According to this aquarium, Crawdads (also known as Crayfish) make produce sounds through their scaphognathite, which is a thin appendage that draws water through the gill cavity. She saw mantises mating and female ate the head off of the Male mantis while she was on the run. I was sure the wife murdered him. Again, its clear that Kya has managed to find happiness in her life. Folks hear n see almost everything. Im confused about the red ski cap. It seemed like a perfect name for a boy who was chasing a girl the way he was chasing Kya. 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. He may even have cared for Kya more in his shallow, selfish way. I dont know and the novel and movie do not make it clear. Presumably though, she saw it as some symbol of her relationship with Chase, possibly a representation of her taking back something (her dignity, her pride, her sense of safety, her sense of self worth, etc.) Instant downloads of all 1682 LitChart PDFs The soundtrack album is by Canadian composer Mychael Danna. (See the map at the end of this post.) I really enjoyed this book too, and appreciate your thoughts on it! or is tate simply left with the fact that kya lied and she was in fact guilty of murder? I always thought crawdads were birds What relevance do the crawdads have to this film Where the rawdads Sing.So am I correct in thinking that crawdads are a crayfish?? 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? Where the Crawdads Sing: . -Graham S. When Owens reveals that Kya was Amanda Hamilton, readers see that she wasnt quite as cut off from the world as it might have seemed. He was, after all, the one who got the marsh girls cherry. Otherwise, GREAT book! Kya had planned the murder in fine detail and covered her tracks including by careful study of the bus schedule. Child to child eye to eye depicts Kyas deep connection to nature and wild and how swamp to be drained would affect her relationship with it..The way humans were destroying ecosystem-you died before the child,my friend ,the wild, And about sunsets are never simple..its about advanced sunrise and delayed sunset..sun is visible 2 min early before actual sunrise and 2 min late after actual sunset..So in a way we dont notice these deceptions..-we see brilliant colors and never learn, the sun has dropped beneath earth by the time we see it burn..So she also hints about her deceived relationship with chase..and the way tide helped her cover tracks and lies in fire tower where footprints were missing. If not, Tate is the one who made arrangements for her to get published. There was nothing premeditated in her at all. She never expressed vanity before. She didnt see what she was doing as anything more than protection of her own life. How would he know it was HIS red hat? Do you believe that Kya killed her father? All the evidence was circumstantial. how did tate actually feel after he found out that she did kill tate? Loved the movie , I was so glad Chase died. Yes! Witherspoon told Vanity Fair in. Where the Crawdads Sing is a 2022 American mystery thriller romantic drama film based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Delia Owens. Shortly after Tate abandons Kya, she observes a female firefly emit a light pattern that summons a male firefly of a different species, at which point the female firefly eats the unsuspecting male. Since he was a drunk, violent, and often gambled or dank his money away..,.i would say its most likely that he was killed over a gambling debt and his body dumped in the marsh or ocean, or he stumbled and fell/broke a leg or what have you/got snake bit one night stumbling home drunk and died in a remote area of the marsh. points out below, it may have been via phone because during the trial, the hotel manager, Mr. Lang Furlough, mentions that she was oddly unfamiliar with how to use the telephone. Tate will protect Kya and Chase knew Kya was assaulted after all. It has sold over two million copies and has been translated into 37 languages. Follow along on Goodreads, or keep in touch via the newsletter. Could it be that she had no memory? Kya knew judgment had no place here. 1. Some like that can you tell me exactly what she says or writes ?? Sure hope that someone who could get those books published sees this! She was afraid and did nothing like that feeling. I cant imagine how kya could find disguises and lure Chase on her own. Kya is brilliant but simple-not knowing the ways of the world. Kya so cooly denied killing Chase and she so easily slipped into reciting Amanda Hamiltons poems, could Kya have had a split personality? For all the details, see Everything We Know about the Where the Crawdads Sing Movie. And love itself passingTo whatever it was before it began. After the final scene in the movie pointing to Kya having killed Chase, I wondered about the relevance of the day he-the lawyer saw the two men hugging by the boat and his reaction afterwards seemed like something perplexed him but also left the feeling that he had found a missing puzzle piece. First paragraph, bingo. Certain lines in the poem reveal that Kya lured Chase to the tower where he then was pushed off and fell to his death. Did I miss what happened to Kyas father? When I was a young girl growing up in south Georgia, my mother encouraged my girlfriends and mewhether we were exploring on foot or riding our horsesto venture as far into the oak forests as we could go. That would explain why he didnt know it was Kya until the end. A possible explanation for why Kya took the shell from Chases dead body: in order to use it to frame Tate. Chase, was a threat to her existence, and she killed him because thats how marsh animals guarantee their survival. Unrecorded persons for four centuries to die no Where the Crawdads Sing, Tate two., just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the better ones either AP! He probably walked. I happened to see the movie before reading the book and I thought it might have been him because of the ski cap exchange between him and Kya. The sheriffs just couldnt find the necklace. Tate had also abandoned Kya for several years, perhaps he could let her take the blame. One with the fibers and the other with the hat. One boy, tanned and dark haired looked like Joidie (assuming she looks like her brother). In the poms that Tate found at the end of the book, all the answers will be in that. I also believe she killed Chase for two reasons which she hits at or outright states in the book/and movie: He was nothing more than a dangerous predator ( even his own father, in the move, Chase says, mentions to him ( when his father had been drinking ) that if people knew who he really was, they would hate him/Chase. Basically, at the end of the book, we find out that Kya has been writing and publishing poems under a pen name. The night her mum sends a letter he gets drunk and abusive again so did Kya go into survival mode again? Then next thing I know hes sitting at the court behind her. If he was alive, even if he was gone for a week or more on a drunk he would have come home at last. Not one major hurricane ( heck, I live inland on the Alabama/Georgia line outside Atlanta, and we have hurricanes here all the time they take down major trees, and blow homes apart. 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. They made sure to mention both Tate and Jumpin were the only 2 that knew she was going out of town and Jumpin made sure she told him when she left. She said we already are like the geese. I thought I remembered the courthouse cat, who befriended Kya, having an affinity with only innocents, did I just make that up?! The murder was covered when the boys found the body and when she came home, the town was already talking about the murder. Not just the one about connecting her to Chases murder? How did kya have Tates hat in her house. In Chapter 17, when Tate and Kya are looking for a place to hang out, Tate suggests that they go somewhere where the crawdads sing. He explains to Kya that it means far in the bush where critters are wild, still behaving like critters. In other words, hes suggesting they go off somewhere far from other people, deep into nature. Her large eyes nearly black, 192 would like to know why a fire tower is in a marsh? omg this is such a good point, I didnt think of it before Ive updated the post to reflect your comment, Where does the white canoe fit in the plot. That Kya sees Jumpin as her father suggests that humans are capable of building their own families, at least in terms of how they feel about one another. I just finished reading and Im pretty sure it says that they held up the plastic bags up in court. Lots of interesting ideas and connections. Three thoughts, after reading through all the posts and having only read the book (I have not seen the movie):: Why did no one ever consider whether Kyas boat left its mooring at the town dock that night when Chase was killedthat was never part of the investigation, yet would have been key to her guilt/innocence. She lured him to the tower and then she left the grate over the last stair open so he could fall through. Money used to go a lot further than it does today, and her first check alone was for $5,000. But now I cant recall why and the summary doesnt explain it. On top of all that, she plots, and gets away with murder? Directed by Olivia Newman from a screenplay by Lucy Alibar, the film is an adaptation of Delia Owens' best-selling 2018 novel of the same name. Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the players. I cried at the end. She kills him to survive because she knows he will eventually hunt and eat her/kill her. Why was it all about his mother. Also, one side of my family lived in the marshes of Louisiana. That bothered me too. Im hoping that someonemaybe the illustrator, or Delia Owens or Reese Witherspoon will see how nice it would be to actually publish those books! They never show the red hat in court, so Tate had no way of knowing it was his own hat. I too think that Chase cared for Kya in his own twisted way. The his expression was that of Ive lived my entire life with the woman he loved, and shes a murder! One by one, they walked out their life. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. One detail did not work out as planned. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. Why did Kyas siblings not take her along when they escaped? They somehow end up at the fire tower arguing or trying to make up. She had already spent years living in fear of her father, she saw what living in fear did to her mother. It unknown what city Barkley Cove was based on. I was wondering who were the two men that were hugging that was seen by the lawyer? How old was kya when she was arrested for murder? Kya refers to herself as white trash at one point, so I think we can safely assume that she and her family are white. She traveled there by bus (Jumpin had to explain to her how to buy a bus ticket). Observing this phenomenon in nature taught her that theres a certain power in sex appeal, and she never thought of this as evil or wrong because she saw it as a simple fact of nature. Where EXACTLY can I read where Kya and Chase were on the fire tower and he fell/was pushed to his death??? i was wondering, is there any significance to the cat that kya spends time with in her prison cell? Kya killed Chase because it was what she felt like it was right, her moral compass shaped by the nature. I loved the book! Not too soon after, the townspeople suspect who they call . I thought jumping might have committed the murder. i just watched the movie yesterday, planning on reading the book but I havent yet. Where the Crawdads Sing Quotes Showing 61-90 of 1,170. His mother never would have accepted her, which even Kya realized the moment she saw his mother, Patti Love Andrews, testify in court all dressed up in black with all-matching accessories. She probably would have not killed a critter, except for food, but killing a human being did not seem a problem. She would not have know Kya was out of town. I find myself feeling such hatred for all of the townspeople who are prejudiced and mean to her, calling her marsh trash proclaiming loudly in my car (all by myself) Hey you A***ole!! So kya definitely killed Chase. What I didnt understand was why Kya never was called to declared during the trial. It states, In another time and place, an old black man and a young white woman might have hugged. Does he die? (The last step, a trap. And she cooks at age 7 or 8, but never burns herself or burns down the house. Then it was all win the sex, brag about it, lie to get it, etc. She saw that she did not want to, nor did she deserve to, live in fear because a predator decided to target her. in general, defendants in criminal cases dont testify unless their lawyer feels they absolutely must for some reason. 'Luring him was as easy,' reads the first line in the poem. Also where is the Fire House Kyas situation was absolutely a do or die scenario and she chose not to lie down and let the marsh erase her existence. She's accused of murdering Chase Andrews (Harris. Seems like a mistake to me. It wasnt a moral choice, it was simply survival. He didnt want their relationship to end, but he couldnt imagine bringing her into his world in town. This theory entered my mind, too. His majority was the clich narcissistic macho man. Tate ends up alone with no offspring with Kya. He wasnt anything a man should be . Did the Asheville references mess with anyone, since its like an 8 hr drive from the outer banks to the mountains?? It was dark, he didnt realize the grate was off. When Kya came home, the murder was already covered up so she wouldnt have done it after she got off the bus. Tate must have known she murdered Chase as she had the red hat he had thrown into her boat just a month before. Great movie. Its just odd with decades of being together and how much they loved each other that she never told him/he didnt know? Falcons and many other beings as well. There's a line toward the end of "Where the Crawdads Sing" when author Delia Owens appears to send a little wink, a mini-apology, to her readers (a.k.a. Doesnt make sense. Page 207 Delia Owens. 17 Top Quotes from Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 1. Consequently, she had to address the matter herself, becoming the human version of a female firefly in a mere act of survival. Ky probably took the hat in the end. She was virtually an innocent. That seems to indicate she may have asked him how to use it in order to contact Chase. The sheriff and deputy found it when they went in with the search warrent. When did that happen, when and how did he find out about her getting arrested and her trial?
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