Its the most plausible answer to how Kya could have been able to kill Chase, though theres not a firm confirmation of it. He just dont want to confront her knowing that she had trust issues and the moment he start to question what she had done, he knew she probably retreat and ran away for good. Unless, I missed something. My sister thinks kyas dad died, I think he left her like everyone else did. There was nothing premeditated in her at all. Ie. I dont recall her being at the trial or questioned or anything. Where would Kya have found it if Tate had actually killed Chase and somehow hidden it. When Kya met Chase she was surprised by how much she wanted to be with him. I dont understand that meaning of So, the red hat mostly serves to provide intriguing but not definitive evidence at the trial and during the investigation. I grew up a foster child and know what it was to be alone. She could have been watching somewhere and ran over after confirming he was dead.. Our hearts broke over the injustices she endured, and they swelled as we saw her care for herself and demand the dignity that is heran every human'sbirthright . Just how it is. Nature had become her family and moral compass. or is tate simply left with the fact that kya lied and she was in fact guilty of murder? As Tate goes to look through her possessions he finds a hidden compartment with poems by a local author (these are referenced throughout the book). Hi Phyllis if you see the section on this page Who Killed Chase Andrews? I cried at the end. Geese mate for life. I think that Chase was killed by Tate as he was watching from the bushes for months waiting for chase to attack and when Kya took the bus he did it. I guess some woman may have been attracted to that but I doubt it. Follow along on Goodreads, or keep in touch via the newsletter. She was virtually an innocent. I think Kyas murder of Chase IS JUSTIFIED, because, at least in the movie, he rapes her. I thought it said her art and writings had been donated to UNC Chapel Hill NC Whats with that? Im glad that I didnt purchase it! How did Kya know Chase would be at the tower? Tate discovers a poem written by Amanda Hamilton, the poet Kya often quotes, underneath their floorboards. And she never gets sick..,only steps on a rusted nail once. We all are still talking about it. Quick and just. Tate, her husband, finds one of these poems (that Kya wrote) along with the necklace that ties Kya to the murder. 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. Reading her message, the second male was convinced hed found a willing female of his own kind and hovered above her to mate. The his expression was that of Ive lived my entire life with the woman he loved, and shes a murder! These males, the article explains, are known as sneaky fuckers, and end up alone. His majority was the clich narcissistic macho man. It is revealed through a poem titled 'The Firefly' that Kya was in fact the one to kill Chase. how did tate actually feel after he found out that she did kill tate? The novel received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. Whats different, though, is that the townspeople are no longer so intolerant of her alternative lifestyle. It was a small town. And, even more so with your answers. . Yes,you dont kill a human being based on circumstances.But also you dont assault and make fake future promises to someone based on circumstances..If chase knew his marriage with Kya was not possible..why did he try to use her?And assualt her if she was never going to be his.Also he was athletic..she couldnt allow herself to be a victim like Ma and live in fear forever..She couldnt leave Marsh and Chase would never let her live without having his last punch..he could assault her again and threaten her to obey him plus nobody would believe prejudiced Marsh girl over chase.Definitely killing is going to extremes and violence and all and no reason would justify it ..but this is Kyas story and nature is her moral compass..Nothing is right and wrong in nature..Nature has its way to thrive and survive-just like female fireflies taught her..She would never let Chase hurt her again like Pa did to MaWhatever she did was to survive and protect her..kinda self defence..Thats the motive behind the murder..so its pretty justified(from kays pov). Why was she not a subject, at the trial, or even say why her husband was gone from her side out in the marsh? Why dont any of Kyas older siblings come back for her? Im hoping that someonemaybe the illustrator, or Delia Owens or Reese Witherspoon will see how nice it would be to actually publish those books! does tate know that chase tried to sexually assault kya, when he finds out that she murdered him? Tate reads the poem again, his heart hammering against his chest. Her poem, about the fireflies, later at the end of the novel, makes it clear that she did kill him and even looked in his eyes as he fellat first she says she saw surprise or a questioning look, then his eyes recognized or realized what and why, and finally his eyes looked at another world. He may even have cared for Kya more in his shallow, selfish way. Chases wife shocked at the murder she just commuted and furious that Kya a marsh girl had captivated her husband, she sets out to lay the necklace on Kyas front porch as a means of Chases final good buy to Kya and to possibly frame her. Kya refers to herself as white trash at one point, so I think we can safely assume that she and her family are white. But Kyas remarkable strength, exceptionalism and beauty actually touched him, made him feel. This seemed realy cruel to me. The necklace ties Kya to the murder because Chase was supposed to have worn it all the time, but it was missing from the scene of the crime. And with her money she gets plumbing and electricity out to the marsh? She did what nature would do when faced with a life or death fight she took out the predator. Berta. What did he see when he was walking at night. I read WTCS back in 2018. Did Tate and Kya have children together. This, she apparently thought, was only a means of survivalafter all, she knew that nobody would believe her when she said that Chase posed a threat to her. I know they did not get married because they were like geese with soulmates, but I didnt understand why they did not have children. I have been looking this up for a couple of days now and yours was the first comment I found in this regard. Our, "Sooo much more helpful thanSparkNotes. 'Luring him was as easy,' reads the first line in the poem. I just finished the book and I thought I got the idea that it was Tate who killed Chase and Kya knew this all along I also based it on that one time Jodie told Kya back when Tate was only 7 or 8 and how he protected Kya against her Pa by screaming at him. Being an expert on the marsh & its plants, critters & tides, does not necessarily make that same person able to excel in other areas, such as a complicated murder plan. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. How do Kya And Chase know to meet at the Fire Tower when he was killed? (If you google this question, the city of Asheville sometimes comes up as the answer, but that is not accurate. He just never came back. This Study Guide consists of approximately 40 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Where the Crawdads Sing. She went to the white school where she saw the other white girls at lunch. Kya watched others. Do, no, its not an error. She saw mantises mating and female ate the head off of the Male mantis while she was on the run. 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 did not see that referenced in her poems. I just dont believe it. The ending to "Where the Crawdads Sing" has, not one, but two big reveals. Thats my theory. No, hes dead. 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. i just watched the movie yesterday, planning on reading the book but I havent yet. I dont think Chase was indifferent about Kya. Kya and Tate were tossing it back and forth while boating. How could she have met him on middle of night, climbed a tower pushed him off got back to bus and back to that town where she was staying. Kya, who never rode a bus before, executes a plan wearing 2 disguises and taking the bus back & forth an extra time, in order to murder Chase. Reflecting back to the necklace I remember this was a very special shell but couldnt remember the scenario when Kya gave it it Chase. Also, her mother had a mental breakdown so I may run in the family and under stress people change. They will always be the trump cards because they are passed on more frequently from one generation to the next than the gentler genes. Throughout out the book, Delia Owenss writing shows a great fondness for the natural world. Why did Tate burn all her poems when he found them? When Where The Crawdads Sing begins, two young boys find the dead body of a man named Chase Andrews deep in the marshes of North Carolina. What happened to Chases boat..where would Kya have hidden it,?surely it was used to to get to yhd tower. Looking deep inside the cardboard box, he finds something else: the shell necklace that Chase wore until he died. How clever of her to take it back and hide its existence. Her character was a survivor. What do you think about Chase and his true feelings for Kya? My students love how organized the handouts are and enjoy tracking the themes as a class.. Did she mention it earlier? I think Kya didnt want to take the stand because she killed him . Again from the book: In killing him, she likely wanted revenge, but also to reclaim some sense of power or something like that. The shell was meaningful when she gave it to Chase. Sure hope that someone who could get those books published sees this! In Where the Crawdads Sing, poetry is an important part of Kya's life. It was published by Putnam in August 2018. I love your take on the murder. But first a quote from the Firefly Poem in the books conclusion: Female fireflies draw in strange males with dishonest signals and eat them; mantis females devour their own mates. First paragraph, bingo. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light. 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. Could it be that she had no memory? From the trial in the book, we know that it is a 1 hour and 35 minute bus ride away (when traveling in the middle of the night with presumably no traffic) from Greenville, NC. She looks down at her hand after petting the car for a while and sees the cats fur/fibers on her hand. 353-354) This was just mentioned and then dropped without any further explanation? Hi Jennifer Marie Lin, I am unsure of what significance this was in the movie. People often die the way they live, so these are good theory. There, laid out carefully on cotton, was the shell necklace Chase had worn until the night he died. Shes petting the resident cat who visits her in her cell. She traveled there by bus (Jumpin had to explain to her how to buy a bus ticket). See the archives. That seems to indicate she may have asked him how to use it in order to contact 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. Did Kya threaten to kill Chase before she killed him? Do you see them in reality in the marsh? I feel ya. in general, defendants in criminal cases dont testify unless their lawyer feels they absolutely must for some reason. I believe if Tate had murdered Chase he wouldnt have allowed Kya to be accused of murder. I loved the book and movie! Kyas source of sorrow was being abandoned. This took place weeks before the murder, but in court when they were questioned, it seems like they were identifying her and her boat the night of the murder? The Firefly poem gives Tate the first clue that Kya might have actually been responsible for Chase's death. What was Chases wifes alibi? It was Tate that encourages Kya to go see her publisher and tells her to stay a couple of nights at a nice hotel and eat food you didnt cook. Required fields are marked *. Where the Crawdads Sing is set in the fictional coastal fishing town of Barkley Cove in eastern North Carolina. I saw them change. Tate searches their Marsh home and finds Chase's missing shell necklace along with some of Kya's poems. Heres everything we know about the hat: In Chapter 43, Tate offers Kya his red hat because its cold. As her family abandons her one by one, she learns to survive on her own. The type of complexity used for the trip back from Greenville to kill Chase was out of character for Kya. He loved her like is own daughter and he said he deserved to die for what he did. In my opinion, he wore it as a sort trophy. I dont entirely understand why this hat has inspired so much curiosity, but here goes. Also, my husband made the point that at the end it just accelerated so quickly to the part where Kya and Tate are much older with nothing in between like in the movie The Notebook. ***Female insects, Kya thought, know how to deal with their lovers. Was the reader supposed to realize that Kya had planned to frame Tate? The murder of Chase occurred in the late 1960s and even if Kya was a woman of the world and was exposed to news, crime novels, college classes, friends, etc, which she was not, I dont think she would have been aware of fiber evidence. Does Kya ever verbally say she did not kill Chase in either the book or movie? Her past work (as a wildlife scientist in Africa), as well as the title of this novel, are a reflection of this. Yes, when they found Chase and the tracks were gone-I though of how her brother said to cover the tracks. They are not mentioned at the trial as audience or protestors or witnesses. I have thoroughly enjoyed the book and will certainly endeavour to read others. I had to get it out before I forgot. I loved the book and just saw the movie last week. Hi! Safety and survival. does tate know (at the end of the book when he discovers kya killed chase) that chase raped kya and threatened her? How did Kya end up with the red hat? The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. 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. This ultimately enables her to avoid feeling helpless against the possibility that Chase might come and try to rape her for a second time. ThankYou so much these explanations. I wished she and Tate would have had more years together, and I also hurt for them that they had no children of their own, as I feel Kya would have made such a loving mother But hey we cant have it all in a story. Im sure thats something she just didnt know about and did not think of at the time. The infamous red hat. Toch de voorliefde voor de natuur en de mens, kan de kracht en schoonheid evenaren, Does the lawyer know kya is guilty? However, seems to me when Tate discovers the poetry under the floorboards his astonishment isnt that Kya is the poet but that she knew Tates secret, hes was the murderer. I think like the reply on the comment above, it was a trophy for him. [33] Now, I could see Chases mother killing him or Jumper or even Tate. But its never clear. Thanks. I believe this scuffle on the dock couldve been the exchange in fibers from Tates red hat. Where did Kya hide the necklace? Possibly that cat hair sticks to clothing and hands while petting it. That would explain why he didnt know it was Kya until the end. Carolins wild creatures (the valentines and mantis) taught her that killing is not really a sin, but a natural instinct to survive. As a mental health therapist, I have clients who fear their perpetrator and feel as though they have no control or little control, unless they move away from that rapist or molester. Crawdads make a strange sound when in the water to alert other crawdads of a predator nearby. Thats all. Yes, Kya was responsible for the death of Chase Andrews. Also, one side of my family lived in the marshes of Louisiana. She saw that she did not want to, nor did she deserve to, live in fear because a predator decided to target her. He should have been an obvious suspect in the case as he had been seen by several witnesses Kaya could have went to the Fire Tower once back in town and found it. Does anyone have her exact line? It makes little sense to me. Where the Crawdads Sing is a tale of immense loneliness. She's accused of murdering Chase Andrews (Harris. Who else would do that but Chase? I must have missed something. Very probably she used the phone in the city at the hotel to call him to meet her there. So Tate would have seen it. Another child teaches her to read? You have to wonder if Owens had ever set foot in NC before she wrote this book, or if she did any research, or if her editors were really careless. 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. Given that Kya later uses this same tactic of seduction to kill Chase (who has become a threatening presence in her life), it becomes clear that Kya sees fireflies as examples of female predation and strength. Page 98 Another thought about why Kya took back the necklace: when she first found the shell, she remarked how unusual and rare (and by inference, quite special) to find it in those waters. Judging by this sentence, -Then he opened the small box, knowing what he would find. The murderer question bothers meI just finished the book: Kya did NOT kill Chase. As one of the commenters below (thanks Lindsay!) But it turns out that Amanda Hamilton, the poet in Where the Crawdads Sing, has a hidden true identity. In the last chapter of the book, everything ties together and cuts some loose ends. *Female insects, Kya thought, know how to deal with their lovers. (lovers is plural ! I think she had a mental breakdown over the years and developed split personalities. Thanks for your post and answers, very helpful!! 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.. From the creators of SparkNotes, something better. Where EXACTLY can I read where Kya and Chase were on the fire tower and he fell/was pushed to his death??? Was this a subtle hint of the author, or just a crazy thought of mine. (See the map at the end of this post.) Then he finds a shell necklace that Kya made for Chase hidden in her shack. How do you think Kya lured him without leaving a trace? Who knows for sure, but she didnt seem she could or would have been able to do the whole bus thing. We know that she does because its referenced in her poem, the Firefly (reproduced below). Sequel in the making? Struggling with distance learning? 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 saw someone comment about the possibility of a mental breakdown and split personalities. He would have known them she killed him. For the full review and a detailed summary of the plot, see the Summary and Review for Where the Crawdads Sing. From the book: Well, we better hide way out there where the crawdads sing. Then after all that, he later goes back to see her and attempts to sexually assault her. Down, down he falls, His eyes still holding mine / Until they see another world.). The Piedmont is rolling hills.. How is there no mention of Hurricane Hazel which did tremendous damage to the Carolina coast in 1954, two years after the beginning of this novel, and would surely have affected the marshlands where Kya lived. In the movie, following Kya's death, Tate uncovers Chase's missing shell necklace and poems written by Kya in their home on the Marsh. The way the content is organized. Dont get me wrong, he is despicable, and his behavior and actions towards her were unforgivable, but I think buried deep in all that, there was a small potential to be a good person. 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