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Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Contributed by Youlanda Mill Get 24/7 Homework help add_circle Post question Content Overview Plot Summary Context Themes Motifs Symbols Characters Discussion Questions Chapter Summaries Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29  Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapter 37 Chapter 38 Chapter 39 Chapter 40 Chapter 41 Chapter 42 Chapter 43 Chapter 44 Chapter 45 Chapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 51 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Get 24/7 Homework help Our tutors provide high quality explanations & answers. Question details... Post question

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Chapter	Summary
Prologue	The prologue opens the book with a vast description of the environment. It brings the novel to its starting point of October 30th, 1969, where the dea... Read more
Chapter 1	Chapter one begins the story in August 1952 and centers around the protagonist Kya who is six years old and lives in a shack with her Ma, Pa, and four... Read more
Chapter 2	The chapter continues with Kya realizing that her oldest brother and two sisters have drifted away and also left home due to their abusive father. Her... Read more
Chapter 3	In this short chapter, we skip to the future in 1969, where Chase Andrew’s body is discovered in the Marsh by two boys on bicycles. The Sheriff and ... Read more
Chapter 4	In Chapter four, the story reverts back to 1952, and we find Kya is suspicious of a woman who has driven close to her shack a few days after her birth... Read more
Chapter 5	The story reverts back to 1969, where Chase Andrew’s body has been found, the chapter mainly goes through alerting the necessary people, notifying h... Read more
Chapter 6	In chapter six, the story reverts back to 1952, where Kya’s dad is dressed smartly and informs her that he’s going to meet with the army for a few... Read more
Chapter 7	Breaking from the usual to-and-fro of each chapter and the timeline, we remain in 1952, where Kya’s relationship with her father appears to improve ... Read more
Chapter 8	The story reverts back to 1969, Chase’s widow and parents all come to see the body, and the initial laboratory results arrive four days later. These... Read more
Chapter 9	In 1953, Kya and her father were going to refuel the boat, and while in the area, her father takes her to a restaurant. Kya never had had food from a ... Read more
Chapter 10	The story reverts back to 1969 search for tire tracks by the sheriff and his deputy, where while they continue to search, they find nothing that made ... Read more
Chapter 11	The chapter begins with a metaphor for Kya’s bleakness and almost joyless life as fear and uncertainty grip her heart, not knowing if her father had... Read more
Chapter 12	Chapter twelve continues with Kya still attempting to adjust to her new mode of survival, while searching for Tate when she’s out in the boat. After... Read more
Chapter 13	In 1960, the description of how Kya wears her mother’s dress indicates that she’s grown up from the girl that was previously written about, with t... Read more
Chapter 14	The investigation in 1969 of Chase Andrew’s death has results that conclude Chase died as a consequence of the extensive fall from the tower, and th... Read more
Chapter 15	In chapter 15, Owens brings the view back to Kya in 1960, where she takes time to reminisce about times gone by, with her sisters and mother when they... Read more
Chapter 16	Continuing from the last chapter, Tate begins to teach Kya how to read, but this is only after Kya goes into Coloured Town after he fails to begin tea... Read more
Chapter 17	The chapter starts with Jumpin warning Kya that social services have been asking about her current situation, whether she will go to school soon and w... Read more
Chapter 18	The chapter picks up with Kya learning to read and her relationship with Tate beginning to blossom. They celebrate Kya’s birthday with a cake and wr... Read more
Chapter 19	This chapter skips forward to the investigation, eight days after Chase’s body was found, as Ed and Joe are discussing the findings of their intervi... Read more
Chapter 20	This chapter reverts to Kya in 1961 as she waits for Tate’s return from college by the Lagoon on the 4th of July. Tate does not return, regardless o... Read more
Chapter 21	Kya struggles with the rejection, the first of her adult life, and starts to come to terms with more abandonment, thinking back to everyone who has do... Read more
Chapter 22	This chapter is the start of Part 2 of the book, where it skips forward some time to 1965, and Kya is now nineteen years old. As the same group of fri... Read more
Chapter 23	Kya has started cooking again for herself, and towards the start of the chapter is thinking about her upcoming picnic with Chase. Chase collects her f... Read more
Chapter 24	While Kya is still feeling the emotional effects of having been so close to someone on the beach, she returns to the same place where they had been pi... Read more
Chapter 25	For the first chapter in a while, the novel returns to the investigation of Chase Andrews in 1969, where Chase’s mother appears to give some informa... Read more
Chapter 26	Back in 1965 where Kya and Chase’s relationship seems to be slowly maturing, the differences in attitude towards the Marsh are stark. Chase, who see... Read more
Chapter 27	The chapter starts in 1966, where Kya, having saved money from weeks of mussel sales, creates a first-anniversary meal that neither she nor Chase ackn... Read more
Chapter 28	The gap between the chapter switches is slowly tying together and jumps forward only a few years from the previous chapter to where Ed and Joe continu... Read more
Chapter 29	In 1967, Kya is traveling to get some ingredients for her first caramel cake because Chase’s birthday is approaching and she has a romantic idea for... Read more
Chapter 30	Kya, upset and distraught at what she has read, takes her boat and rides it head-on into the sea to feel something else other than the pain of rejecti... Read more
Chapter 31	Kya, after having initial contact with a publisher, had sent more material and signed a contract for her first book, and she’d received an initial a... Read more
Chapter 32	With the marsh girl still a prime suspect in the murder of Chase Andrews, Joe and Ed continue to investigate and having spoken with Tate and Jumpin, f... Read more
Chapter 33	The chapter reverts to 1968, where Kya minding her own business gets an unexpected visit from a young man in a military uniform. As he stands at the d... Read more
Chapter 34	Joe and Ed continue on their investigation into the death of Chase Andrews, they conduct a legal search of Kya’s shack in the hope of finding eviden... Read more
Chapter 35	As readers, we’re beginning to reach a point where the back and forth between these two timelines are coming together. We join Kya before Chase’s ... Read more
Chapter 36	The chapter skips forward again to find that the fibers taken from Kya’s hat are a match for those at the crime scene, and on review, Ed and Joe fee... Read more
Chapter 37	The chapter catches up with Kya for the first time on the future side of the timeline, the police have started coming to call on her home so often she... Read more
Chapter 38	It is 1970 and Kya is being charged and trialed for Chase’s murder in the first degree. Her lawyer Tom Milton, who volunteered to represent her pro ... Read more
Chapter 39	This chapter opens a few months before in 1969, where it is revealed what Rodney Horn, in chapter thirty-six, saw that supposedly had convinced Joe an... Read more
Chapter 40	This chapter unpacks the previous one slightly more, rejoining the start of the trial where Rodney Horn is on the witness stand and giving evidence to... Read more
Chapter 41	The chapter switches back to Kya’s point of view again just after the attempted rape has occurred to consider the physical and emotional fallout of ... Read more
Chapter 42	After hearing evidence from the fishermen, the chapter returns to Kya in her cell, where she has been held without bail for two months because of her ... Read more
Chapter 43	The chapter reverts to early September in 1969 before Chase’s death, and Kya receives an invitation to meet her editor in Greenville. She happens ac... Read more
Chapter 44	This chapter delves a little more into Kya’s experience in the county jail, which is miserable. Tom visits her, and while checking on her welfare, s... Read more
Chapter 45	This is a continuation of the last chapter, where the court case against Kya continues. The prosecution argued with the coroner as a testifying witnes... Read more
Chapter 46	We return to a time before Chase had died, and Kya was considering the trip to Greenville to meet the editor of her book, Robert Foster. She had taken... Read more
Chapter 47	This chapter goes back into the courtroom, where the prosecutor Eric Chastain is questioning the Sheriff about the discovery of the body. They weakly ... Read more
Chapter 48	This chapter briefly summarizes how Kya packed a suitcase on October 28th, 1969, and boarded a bus to Greenville before returning two days later. The ... Read more
Chapter 49	There is a small dialogue back in the courtroom which examines testimony from Mr. Price, who drove the bus on the first day, and then another testimon... Read more
Chapter 50	This chapter is another short dialogue and continuation of the last chapter, centering around a journal that Kya had given Chase as a gift as well as ... Read more
Chapter 51	The trial continues, and we hear evidence from Mr. Miller, who had seen Kya on the boat heading towards the fire tower in a previous chapter. It is es... Read more
Chapter 52	The part of the trial where it’s time for the defense to call and question their witnesses has been reached. There were many of whom were due to cla... Read more
Chapter 53	This court case is coming to its final decision, and this chapter gives a front-row seat to the closing arguments after the last defense witness. It w... Read more
Chapter 54	Now that the closing statements have been made, everyone is waiting for the verdict, which can take anything from minutes to days. Kya is taken to her... Read more
Chapter 55	With the trial over, Jodie takes Kya home and goes about making some food while Kya gets acquainted with her family in the Marsh. It’s clear that th... Read more
Chapter 56	This chapter tells us that the reason Tate had been fetched was that his father had died. Tate has great feelings of regret concerning the amount of e... Read more
Chapter 57	In the last chapter of the book, everything ties together and cuts some loose ends. They move in together, hiring someone to create a lab and make som... Read more

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