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1. Yellow if it pertains to Chase's attack or any of Chase's abuse
2. Green if it pertains to the investigation, evidence, or the court case
3. Purple if it is about the fireflies
4. Red if it is about Tate's relationship with Kya
5. White if it pertains to something else

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Sheriff Ed states in chapter 5, “C’mon, he wasn’t that bad. Sure. He had a reputation as a ladies’ man. But I don’t see anybody in this town committin’ murder over it.”

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“he forces her to the ground and puts himself on top of her. She begs him to stop, but he knees her in the stomach and unzips his jeans. Still, she tries to stand, but he punches her in the face and then holds her down.”  chapter 39 what chases does to kya

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¨That regret faded too when Jodie and Libby began bringing their two children—Murph and Mindy—to visit Kya and Tate several times a year. Once again the shack swelled with family around the old cookstove, serving up Ma’s corn fritters, scrambled eggs, and sliced tomatoes. But this time there was laughter and love.¨ ch 57

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¨That regret faded too when Jodie and Libby began bringing their two children—Murph and Mindy—to visit Kya and Tate several times a year. Once again the shack swelled with family around the old cookstove, serving up Ma’s corn fritters, scrambled eggs, and sliced tomatoes. But this time there was laughter and love.¨ ch 57

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“A sick popping sound rang out inside her head. Her neck snapped back, and her body was thrown backward onto the ground. Just like Pa hitting Ma. Her mind blanked for seconds against a pounding pain; then she twisted and turned, trying to squirm out from under him, but he was too strong. Holding both her arms over her head with one hand, he unzipped her shorts and ripped down her panties as she kicked at him.” (chapter 39 pages 173)

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"Kya watched others. The females got what they wanted-first mate, then a meal-just by changing their signals" Chapter 20

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Chapter 20 When Kya observes the female fireflies " Kya knew judgment had no place here.Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on even at the expense of some players. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in a different light" 

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Chapter 20 When Kya observes the female fireflies " Kya knew judgment had no place here.Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on even at the expense of some players. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in a different light" 

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“Yes, it wouldn’t be that hard to determine one way or the other, so why wasn’t it done? Here we are in court, and you have no proof whatsoever that a person wiped away footprints to cover a crime." (Ch.47 pg. 198)

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"Sill, she tires to stand, but he punches her in the face and then holds her down" chapter 39

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“Yes, I know who made the necklace for Chase. It was that woman who boats around in that old rattletrap boat; has for years. She made it and gave it to him when they were seeing each other for a while.” Chapter 25

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“The coroner testified that, after examining Chase’s body, there was no evidence that Miss Clark was in close proximity to him that night. Oh, there were those fibers, but they could have been four years old. And now, you’re telling us that there is no evidence
whatsoever that Miss Clark was even on the fire tower that night. Is that a correct
statement?” “Yes.”
“So we have no evidence that proves Miss Clark was on the fire tower the night Chase Andrews fell to his death. Correct?” Chapter 47

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“Sunsets are never simple. Twilight is refracted and reflected But never true. Eventide is a disguise Covering tracks, Covering lies. “We don’t care That dusk deceives. We see brilliant colors, And never learn The sun has dropped Beneath the earth By the time we see the burn. “Sunsets are in disguise, Covering truths, covering lies. “A.H. ( Page 162 CH 35)

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Chapter 40 "..... Chase Andrews, the quarterback
a few years back."
“So, Rodney, no matter whether certain behavior was consensual or not between the
two of them, is it accurate to say that the defendant, Miss Clark, was extremely mad at
the deceased, Chase Andrews?”

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Kya remembered how her heart had pounded at the joy of giving, never imagining
anyone else would see the journal. Certainly not as evidence at her murder trial.
Apparently hidden from her. She’d sat on Chase’s bed and opened the thick cover. There,
in detailed ink, her son lying against driftwood with that girl. The Marsh Girl. She could barely breathe. What if people find out? First cold, then sweaty, her body reeled.(Chapter 50)

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“Kya turned the page to continue the story, and there loomed a large picture of Chase and a girl above an engagement announcement: Andrews-Stone.”(page 136, Chapter 29)

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Chapter 20 page 96"Kya watched others. The females got what they wanted first a mate, then a meal just by changing their signals. Kya knew judgment had no place here. Evil was not in play, just life pulsing on, even at the expense of some of the players. Biology sees right and wrong as the same color in different light."

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In chapter 27 Chase said ¨It's time don't you agree, Kya? Its time.¨ chase took kya to a hotel in asheville so they could have sex for the first time but kya was uncomfortable the entire time.

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Chpt. 1 Page 13, “Kya didn’t understand,

but she figured Ma’s words needed somewhere to go, so she absorbed them through her skin, as she poked more wood in the cookstove”.
Chpt. 1 Page 13 “Kya couldn’t eat. She sat on the porch steps, looking down the lane” & “Kya returned to the porch steps later and waited for a long time, but, as she looked to the end of the lane, she never cried.”

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“Yes, I know who made the necklace for Chase. It was that woman who boats around in that old rattletrap boat; has for years. She made it and gave it to him when they were seeing each other for a while.” “You talking about the Marsh Girl?” Chapter 25

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"She twisted, tried to yank away, but he gripped her with both hands, hurting her arms. He put his mouth on hers and kissed her. She threw her arms up,
knocking his hands away. She pulled her head back, hissing, “Don’t you dare.”
Chapter 39, Page 173

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"She couldn’t tell anybody. Jumpin’ would insist they call in the sheriff, but the law would never believe the Marsh Girl over Chase Andrews. She wasn’t sure what the two fishermen had seen, but they’d never defend her. They’d say she had it coming because, before Chase left her, she’d been seen smooching with him for years, behaving
unladylike." Chapter 41

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"But this was too abrupt- picnic, then mate the Marsh Girl. Even male birds woo the females for a while, flashing brilliant feathers, building bowers, staging magnificent dances and love songs. Yes, Chase had laid out a banquet, but she was worth more than fried chicken. And "Dixie" didn't count as a love song. She should've known it would be like this. Only time male mammals hover is when they're in a rut." Chapter 23 "The Shell" pg. 161 of the book

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Chapter 39 Page 173
''She twisted, tried to yank away but her gripped her with both hands, hurting her arms. He put his mouth on hers and kissed her. She threw her arms up, knocking her head back, hissing, ''Don't you dare.''
Chapter 47
''Yes, it wouldn’t be that hard to determine one way or the other, so why wasn’t it done? Here we are in court, and you have no proof whatsoever that a person wiped away footprints to cover a crime.”

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“She came stumblin’ out toward her boat, and well, she was partway undressed. Her shorts ’round her ankles and her knickers ’round her knees. She was tryin’ to pull up her shorts and run at the same time. The whole time shoutin’ at him. She went to her boat, jumped in, and zoomed away, still pullin’ at her pants. When she passed us by, she looked at us right in the eyes. That’s how I know ’xactly who it was.”

“You said she was shouting at him the entire time she was running toward her boat. Did you hear exactly what she said?”

“Yeah, we could hear her plain as day by then ’cause we were pretty close.”
“Please tell the court what you heard her shout.”
“She was screamin’, ‘Leave me alone, you bastard! You bother me again, I’ll kill ya!’” A loud murmur shot through the courtroom and didn’t stop. Judge Sims banged his. (chapter 41)

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“She couldn’t tell anybody. Jumpin’ would insist they call in the sheriff, but the law would never believe the Marsh Girl over Chase Andrews”, stated in chapter 41.

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“But, Sheriff, as you said, you’re the expert, trained in footprint examination. And now
you say you don’t know if this common occurrence happened that night or not.”
“Well, it wouldn’t be that hard to prove one way or the other, would it? Just go out
there at low tide, make some tracks, and see if they are wiped out when the tide comes
in.”
“Yes, it wouldn’t be that hard to determine one way or the other, so why wasn’t it
done? Here we are in court, and you have no proof whatsoever that a person wiped away
footprints to cover a crime. It’s more likely that Chase Andrews did leave prints under the
tower and that they were washed away by the rising groundwater. And if some friends
had been with him to climb the tower for fun, their footprints would have been washed
away as well. Under these very likely circumstances, there is no suggestion whatsoever of
a crime. Isn’t that correct, Sheriff?”
Chapter 47, page 198
A cross examination between Kya's lawyer and the sheriff

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“he forces her to the ground and puts himself on top of her. She begs him to stop, but he knees her in the stomach and unzips his jeans. Still, she tries to stand, but he punches her in the face and then holds her down.”  chapter 39 what chases does to kya

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"You know how it is. Seems like there's something in every murder case that doesn't make sense. People mess up. Maybe she was shocked and furious that he still wore the necklace, and after committing murder, it didn't seem like a big deal to snatch it off his neck. She wouldn't have known anybody could link the necklace to her. Your sources said Chase had something going on out there. Maybe, like you said earlier, it wasn't drugs at all, but a woman. This woman."
Joe says this to Ed after Patti Love leaves their office telling them that Chase's shell necklace is missing after she gets his belongings from the coroner.
Where the Crawdads Sing, Chapter 25 ("A Visit from Patti Love"), page 173-174 in the book.

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Look like you been beat
up, Miss Kya.” Quickly she turned her face away. The bruise from Chase’s slug, almost a
month old, was faded to a faint yellowish stain, which Kya thought no one would notice. Chapter 46 What chase did to hurt Kya and he probably beat her up bad to still be showing over a month ago.

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¨Holding both her arms over her head with one hand, he unzipped her shorts and ripped down her panties as she kicked at him. She screamed, but there was no one to hear. Kicking at the ground, she struggled to free herself, but he grabbed her waist and flipped her over onto her stomach. Shoved her throbbing face into the dirt, then reached under her belly and pulled her pelvis up to him as he knelt behind.“I’m not letting’ ya go this time. Like it or not, you’re mine.”(39)

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"Quickly she turned her face away. the bruise from chase's slug, almost a month old, was faded to a faint yellowish stain, which Kya thought no one would notice." "No, I just walked into a door in-." "Don't ya go tellin me a story now, Miss Kya. I didn't just fall of the trump truck. Who done hit ya like that?"
In this we can see that Jumpin is extremely close to family maybe even a father figure seeing/ hearing how upset and hurt he had gotten when Kya had told him Jumpin had hurt her and letting her know if anything she could come stay with him and Mabel.

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“With Chase she felt exposed, as if someone were filleting her like a fish…’Kya, nobody I know could’ve lived out here like this. Most kids, even the guys, would’ve been too scared.”

(chapter 24)

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““The sheriff found the cap in Miss Clark’s residence.” This was not generally known, and murmurs rippled through the crowd.”  (Ch.45, Pg.192).  In this it talks about what they did the search warrant and what they found as well as how almost nobody knew it happened.

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“I will never live like that—a life wondering when and where the next fist will fall”, (Owens 178)
"Being isolated was one thing; living in fear, quite another.” (Owen 185)
Kya says these after Chases attack

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"Think what would happen if one of the girls from Colored Town accused Chase Andrews of assault and attempted rape. They’d do nothing. Zero.” (46)

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“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?” Owens 125

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"From the rucksack he pulled out a thin, faded book of the alphabet and lined writing pad. With a careful slow hand, he formed the letters between the lines a A, b B, asking her to do the same, patient with her tongue-between-her-lips effort. As she wrote, he said the letter out loud. Softly, slowly." (Chapter 16 "Reading")

"Over the coming days, sitting on the oak knee in shade or the shore in the sun, Tate taught her how to read the words, which sang of the geese and cranes, real all around them....In between helping his dad or pitching baseball with his friends, he came to Kya's place several times a week and, now, no mater what she was doing- weeding the garden, feeding the chickens, searching for shells- she listened for the sound of his boat humming up the channel." (Ch 16 "Reading).

"Learning to read was the most fun she'd ever had. But she couldn't figure why Tate offered to teach po' white trash like her, why he'd come in the first place, bringing exquisite feathers. But she didn't ask, afraid it might get him thinking on it, send him away."

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Chase making up for his mistake when him and Kya went on a picnic

“The first week they were together, Chase pulled into Kya’s lagoon almost every day after his work..” (Owens ch. 26).

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“She wasn’t sure what the two fishermen had seen, but they’d never defend her. They’d say she had it coming because, before Chase left her, she’d been seen smooching with him for years, behaving unladylike.” (Owen # 177)

“Chase would not let this go. Being isolated was one thing; living in fear, quite another.” (Owen#185)

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“For the rest of the summer Kya and Tate did the reading lessons at the tumbledown cabin. By mid-August they had read through A Sand County Almanac, and although she couldn’t read every word, she got most of it.” (Owens 77)
Tate and Kya are spending a lot of quality time together.

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What chase did to Kya in chapter 39 "he forces her to the ground and puts himself on top of her. She begs him to stop, but he knees her in the stomach and unzips his jeans. Still, she tries to stand, but he punches her in the face and then holds her down"

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“So, in fact, since the red fibers could have been on his jacket for as long as four years, there’s no evidence whatsoever that Miss Catherine Clark was near Chase Andrews the night of his death?” Ch.45 Pg,194.
There no evidence exactly to prove that Kya was with Chase that night.

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Citizens of the town would call her names like the ¨marsh girl¨ and ¨swap girl”. “MISS Catherine Danielle Clark!” Tallskinnyblonde and Roundchubbycheeks, the girls at lunch, called out, “Where ya been, marsh hen? Where’s yo’ hat, swamp rat?”(chapter 4)

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¨When she was led into the school office, they found her name but no date of birth in the county birth records, so they put her in the second grade, even though she’d never been to school a day in her life.¨ (chapter 4)

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"Crows can't keep secrets any better than mud; once they see something curious in the forest they have to tell everybody. Those who listen are rewarded: either warned of predators or altered to food." (Ch. 13 "Feathers
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“For the rest of the summer Kya and Tate did the reading lessons at the tumbledown cabin. By mid-August they had read through A Sand County Almanac, and although she couldn’t read every word, she got most of it.” (Owens 77).
Tate and Kya are hanging out more which ends up flourishing a relationship between them.

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” Toting the bag of jam jars, she turned back toward her boat and motored home. Thought she’d probably never go viztin’ again.”ch.16 pg.71 ... about kya and jumpin

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“ After Ma left, over the next few weeks, Kya’s oldest brother and two sisters drifted away too, as if by example. They had endured Pa’s red-faced rages, which started as shouts, then escalated into fist-slugs, or backhanded punches, until one by one, they disappeared." (owens 15) one of kya's experiences dealing with her abusive father

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What kya says after the attack on chase "I will never live like that-a life wondering when and where the next fist will fall" "Being isolated was one thing, living in fear, quite another"

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"Finding strength from somewhere primal, she pushed against the ground with her
knees and arms and reared up, at the same time swinging her elbow back across his jaw.
As his head swung to the side, she struck him wildly with her fists until he lost his balance
and sprawled backward onto the dirt. Then, taking aim, she kicked him in his groin,
square and solid."(ch.39) what Kya did to chase to get away from him.

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"—I think that is what she would be today. If we had fed, clothed, and loved her, invited her into our churches and homes, we wouldn’t be prejudiced against her. And I believe she would not be sitting here today accused of a crime,” Ch. 53
Though a bit ahead both sides of the original prompt can use this to fight for Justice or not, as Tom does use one of the main ideals Lawyers follow, pathos, to the human emotions to try to prove to the Jury Kya deserves redemption, but other side can use it, as the Jury was just using self satisfaction for the verdict and was swayed not by the evidence as a jury should

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“Hey, I said I’m sorry. Ya knew we couldn’t get married. Ya never coulda lived near
town. But I always cared about ya; I stayed by ya.” Ch.39 Chase is trying to act like the victim here with Kya, when she found out he was marrying Pearl.

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"“But nothing could stop the burning shame and sharp sadness. A simple hope of being with someone, of actually being wanted, of being touched, had drawn her in. But these hurried groping hands were only a taking, not a sharing or giving.” (Owens 108)" Ch 24

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“Meryl Lynn, dahlin’, don’t go near that girl, ya hear me. She’s dirty.” .... A woman came out of the Piggly Wiggly and walked quickly up to them. “Ya all right, Teresa? What happened here? Was that girl botherin’ Meryl Lynn?” “I saw her in time. Thank you, Jenny. I wish those people wouldn’t come to town. Look at her. Filthy. Plumb nasty. There’s that stomach flu goin’ around and I just know for a fact it came in with them. Last year they brought in that case of measles, and that’s serious.”(chapter 9). Kya is not a monster. At this point, she is only a child, enjoying a day out with her father, even if she has some dirt on her clothes or face. Because of this classist discrimination, Kya starts trying her best to avoid the townspeople because she will always be seen as a lesser person, without anychance of redemption, she’ll always be discriminated against.

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"She stared, flabbergasted, her mouth open. No one had wished her happy birthday
since Ma left. No one had ever given her a store-bought cake with her name on it. She’d
never had presents in real wrapping paper with ribbons." (Owens, 86) Chapter 18