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re: Where the Crawdads Sing
Posted on 8/29/22 at 7:29 am to BowDownToLSU
Posted on 8/29/22 at 7:29 am to BowDownToLSU
it's a little different from the usual. Grown up Kya is easy on the eyes.
Of course they never really say what happened. Guessing the necklace at the end is supposed to point to her?
But, there are a few other people who could have done it.
The old/new BF?
The store owner?
The military brother?
Of course they never really say what happened. Guessing the necklace at the end is supposed to point to her?
But, there are a few other people who could have done it.
The old/new BF?
The store owner?
The military brother?
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Posted on 8/29/22 at 8:50 am to MorbidTheClown
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But, there are a few other people who could have done it.
The old/new BF?
The store owner?
The military brother?
I've got to believe that Kaya did it.
It definitely wasn't Tate. His look of surprise when he found the necklace was the sign that he had no idea it was there.
If it was the store owner or the brother (really doubt the brother) they would have then had to have secretly given Kaya the necklace. I don't think that's likely.
She did it. They all but tell you that when she's talking at dinner with the publicist about how lightning bugs have two different signals, one to mate, one to kill the male.
Posted on 8/29/22 at 8:58 am to MorbidTheClown
SPOILER FOR BOOK & MOVIE
Yes. The book handles it better. In the book, Kya is fond of poetry and is occasionally reciting poems from her favorite poet (the end of the book also reveals that she is an accomplished, published poet under a pseudonym and the poems she had been reciting the entire book were actually her own. She kept that secret from everyone until death, including Tate). When Tate finds the necklace at the end, it is accompanied with a poem written by Kya about how female fireflies use their lights to attract potential male mates over to them, but the female ends up killing the male instead of mating with them. So the necklace with that poem makes it VERY clear she was the killer.
In the movie, she actually talks about the female fireflies killing the males during the brief dinner scene with the guy who wants to publish her book(s), but it is such a short scene that can be completely lost on the viewer. Not having that firefly story with the necklace reveal completed ruins the impact of the ending, imo. The significance of that firefly story was too easy to miss the way the movie did it.
Also, imo, the book does a better job of making you believe she is innocent the entire time. You read it thinking no way she did it and the "fake" trial was just to show the town's bias against her. So the reveal hits that much harder because, as the reader, you really believe that all of the "evidence" is bullshite. The movie loses a lot of that in translation - almost like it wants you to question whether or not she did it the entire time. Which is fine, but the ending loses impact if you questioned her innocence at all to some degree.
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Guessing the necklace at the end is supposed to point to her?
Yes. The book handles it better. In the book, Kya is fond of poetry and is occasionally reciting poems from her favorite poet (the end of the book also reveals that she is an accomplished, published poet under a pseudonym and the poems she had been reciting the entire book were actually her own. She kept that secret from everyone until death, including Tate). When Tate finds the necklace at the end, it is accompanied with a poem written by Kya about how female fireflies use their lights to attract potential male mates over to them, but the female ends up killing the male instead of mating with them. So the necklace with that poem makes it VERY clear she was the killer.
In the movie, she actually talks about the female fireflies killing the males during the brief dinner scene with the guy who wants to publish her book(s), but it is such a short scene that can be completely lost on the viewer. Not having that firefly story with the necklace reveal completed ruins the impact of the ending, imo. The significance of that firefly story was too easy to miss the way the movie did it.
Also, imo, the book does a better job of making you believe she is innocent the entire time. You read it thinking no way she did it and the "fake" trial was just to show the town's bias against her. So the reveal hits that much harder because, as the reader, you really believe that all of the "evidence" is bullshite. The movie loses a lot of that in translation - almost like it wants you to question whether or not she did it the entire time. Which is fine, but the ending loses impact if you questioned her innocence at all to some degree.
This post was edited on 8/29/22 at 9:06 am
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