Summary
In these concluding pages of the book, a lot of dramatic things happen. Picking up where it was left, Louisa and Ray are going back home after the party, and back home, he seems to be too into his work to pay much attention to Louisa, who gets fustrated. Next, Louisa explains how she met Ray, and the secretive relationship they had. She mentions how she tried to break it off with him because she couldn't deal with the secretive relationship. but that Ray started crying, and so since neither of them wanted it to end, she stayed with him. Then, Louisa switches up the story she was telling and is all dressed up to go somewhere with Ray, her last day for something, although it is unknown what it could be. In the end of the chapter it is learned that Louisa and Ray are attending some sort of exhibition in a museum, and looking at some sort of object that was owned by a person named Esteban.
In the next chapter, Clem is now narrating. She starts off by talking about bears and the big controversy with them living so close to people. Then, she mentions how getting close to these bears makes it easier for them to feel closer to her. She noticed that in a family of three bears, the boy bear, which was named Danny, was smalled compared to the female cub, which is not normal because he is supposed to be much larger. Later in the chapter it is learned that he has a hole in his heart, and that if he is to live longer, he will need surgery, or otherwise he would die soon. Clem becomes in charge of getting the paperwork done, and a surgeon comes. There is a lot of publicity for this, and everyone is anxious for it to end well. Unfortunately, it doesn't end well, and Danny dies. This leaves Clem crushed. This chapter ends with Clem home alone at night before she goes to sleep.
In the last pages left, Louisa narrates. At first it seems confusing with what she is saying, but then readers learn that Clem has died. The reason becomes unknown, until one of Clem's colleagues tells Louisa it seems Clem killed herself due to the death of the cub. Louisa talks about how she went to Clem's house and went through what Clem owned, finding it hard to believe she really died. Louisa saw Clem one last time in the funeral, and her parents were crushed and upset that Clem had died.
Quote
"She holds her life tight, never letting it out of her sight for a minute. So how could she be marked?" (Glass 204).
Reaction
The ending of the book was really sad. The fact that Clem died really brought upon a depressing mood for the rest of the book. It also seems like when the end of the book was approaching, the author got more confusing in letting know who was narrating the story next. It also made clear that even though Clem was reckless, it was as if she kept the family together, and once her death came, it was as if her family fell apart. The story stopped meaning so much once her death came, and she became the tragic hero of the story.
I liked this quote because it shows the sympathy Clem has towards her sister Louisa. Louisa was going through hard times, getting chemotherapy because of the tumor she had, and Clem felt as if it wasn't fair that Louisa was experiencing this. She thought that with her recklessness, she would be the one to get this, and that she would be the one that would die. So when this happened to her sister, it's as if she was upset that it couldn't have happened to her. This quote could have foreshadowed the death that Clem was awaiting.
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