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Actually not a subversion, since C and K encode the same sound.
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* AlliterativeName: Catherine Clark. Subverted as she's usually just called "Kya".
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* AlliterativeName: Catherine Clark. Subverted as she's usually just called "Kya". "Kya" Clark.
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I don’t think it’s appropriate to objectively say that her act of murder was justified on the main page.
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* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Kya DID murder Chase, who was far from the nice guy he seemed to be, because she was scared he'd kill her. (He probably would have too. So it would seem it was justified.)]]
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* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Kya DID murder Chase, who was far from the nice guy he seemed to be, because she was scared he'd kill her. (He probably would have too. So it would seem it was justified.)]]]]
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* CassandraTruth: Kya DID murder Chase, who was far from the nice guy he seemed to be, because she was scared he'd kill her. (He probably would have too. So it would seem it was justified.)
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* CassandraTruth: Kya [[spoiler:Kya DID murder Chase, who was far from the nice guy he seemed to be, because she was scared he'd kill her. (He probably would have too. So it would seem it was justified.))]]
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* AssholeVictim: Chase.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: [[spoiler: The fact that Chase consistently wears black shirts is a huge hint that he isn't the nice guy he seems to be.]]
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Everyone assumes Kya killed Chase out of revenge for him dumping her. She did, but because he tried to rape her and was legitimately terrified that he was going to try to finish the job and kill here]].
* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase ''seems''to be this to Kya after Tate disappears, [[spoiler:but he turns out to have been cheating on his actual girlfriend/fiancée with her and tries to rape her when she rebuffs him after finding this out.]]
* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase ''seems''to be this to Kya after Tate disappears, [[spoiler:but he turns out to have been cheating on his actual girlfriend/fiancée with her and tries to rape her when she rebuffs him after finding this out.]]
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Everyone assumes Kya killed Chase out of revenge for him dumping her. She did, but because he tried to rape her and was legitimately terrified that he was going to try to finish the job and kill here]].
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* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase''seems''to ''seems'' to be this to Kya after Tate disappears, [[spoiler:but he turns out to have been cheating on his actual girlfriend/fiancée with her and tries to rape her when she rebuffs him after finding this out.]]
* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase
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* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase ''seems''to be this to Kya after Tate disappears, [[but he turns out to have been cheating on his actual girlfriend/fiancée with her and tries to rape her when she rebuffs him after finding this out.]]
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* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase ''seems''to be this to Kya after Tate disappears, [[but [[spoiler:but he turns out to have been cheating on his actual girlfriend/fiancée with her and tries to rape her when she rebuffs him after finding this out.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Chase seems to be a nice guy, if not as much as Tate, but it turns out that he's been cheating on his girlfriend with Kya the entire time they were together, tries to rape Kya, trashes her place, and makes her so afraid that she has to kill him to stop the threat.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Chase seems to be a nice guy, if not as much as Tate, but it turns out that he's been cheating on his girlfriend with Kya the entire time they were together, tries together. Even then, he still seems genuinely remorseful for hurting her, only to slap her when she rejects him, try to rape Kya, trashes her and trash her place, and makes making her so afraid that she has decides to kill him to stop the threat.]]]]
* BreakInThreat: Kya returns home after hiding out in the woods to avoid Chase after he assaulted her to find her house in shambles. This is the moment that makes her realize that she's in genuine danger and that he will likely return to finish the job.
* BreakInThreat: Kya returns home after hiding out in the woods to avoid Chase after he assaulted her to find her house in shambles. This is the moment that makes her realize that she's in genuine danger and that he will likely return to finish the job.
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* NotGoodWithRejection: Chase responds to Kya's righteous anger over him being engaged and her rebuffing his attempts at apologizing by hitting her, trying to rape her, and breaking into her house to trash it.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Everyone assumes Kya killed Chase out of revenge for him dumping her. She did, but because he tried to rape her and was legitimately terrified that he was going to try to finish the job and kill here]].
* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase ''seems''to be this to Kya after Tate disappears, [[but he turns out to have been cheating on his actual girlfriend/fiancée with her and tries to rape her when she rebuffs him after finding this out.]]
* SecondLove: Subverted. Chase ''seems''to be this to Kya after Tate disappears, [[but he turns out to have been cheating on his actual girlfriend/fiancée with her and tries to rape her when she rebuffs him after finding this out.]]
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* TragicKeepsake: Chase continues wearing the shell necklace Kya made for him, implying that despite everything, he did genuinely love her [[spoiler: and decades later, a now-elderly Tate finds it among her things, revealing that she DID kill him after all.]]
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Just knowing that she did it counts as a reveal. Anyway, the book at least makes it clear how she did it - she lured him to the top of the water tower, then pushed him off.
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Only at the end of the movie do we learn that Kya WAS Chase's killer, but how she did it is never depicted.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Chase seems to be a nice guy, if not as much as Tate, but it turns out that he's been cheating on his girlfriend with Kya the entire time they were together, tries to rape Kya, trashes her place, and makes her so afraid that she has to kill him to stop the threat.]]
* ChekhovsGun: On their first date, Chase takes Kya to the water tower and can be seen closing an opening in the grate, the very grate he would fatally fall through. Kya's lawyer points out that Chase's death could easily have been an accidental fall rather than a murder.
** [[spoiler: In an early scene while walking with Tate, she covers their footprints so that CPS can't find her. When Chase's body is found with no footprints nearby, the deputy deduces that they were destroyed by the perpetrator. This is the first hint that Kya's guilty after all.]]
** On their first date, Chase takes Kya to the water tower and can be seen closing an opening in the grate, the very grate he would fatally fall through. Kya's lawyer points out that Chase's death could easily have been an accidental fall rather than a murder.
** On their first date, Chase takes Kya to the water tower and can be seen closing an opening in the grate, the very grate he would fatally fall through. Kya's lawyer points out that Chase's death could easily have been an accidental fall rather than a murder.
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: We're clearly supposed to hate the police, prosecutor, and Chase's family for going after Kya for Chase's murder, until it turns out that she did it after all. They are however, wrong about the reason --she didn't do it because he dumped her, she did it because she was terrified of him.]]
* LonersAreFreaks: With few exceptions, the entire town is all too eager to attribute everything bad to Kya, simply because she's living alone. [[spoiler: When the popular Chase dies violently in the swamp, they all jump to the conclusion that she must be the murderer, without much proof to back it up.]]
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* LonersAreFreaks: With few exceptions, the entire town is all too eager to attribute everything bad to Kya, simply because she's living alone. [[spoiler: When the popular Chase dies violently in the swamp, they all jump to the conclusion that she must be the murderer, without much proof to back it up.]]
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* RedHerring: Literally when we see that the red hat in Kya's house belonged to Tate. The next scene is of her lawyer asking if she knew if anyone else had motive to kill Chase, to which she fervently shakes her head. So Tate must be the killer then! [[spoiler: No, it's KYA. And judging from the elderly Tate's reaction when he finds the necklace she gave Chase among Kya's things, he genuinely didn't know.]]
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Only at the end of the movie do we learn that Kya WAS Chase's killer, but how she did it is never depicted.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Kya's Pa is abusive to his wife and children and is the main reason the entire rest of the family ends up leaving, and eventually abandons her himself.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Jumpin' and his wife are the closest Kya gets to caring, loving parents. For years they supply her with clothes. food and advice.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Jumpin' and his wife are the closest Kya gets to caring, loving parents. For years they supply her with clothes. food clothes, food, and advice. advice.
* PetTheDog: For a while, Pa acts decently to Kya, teaching her how to fish, telling her a bit about the family history, giving her things for her marsh collection, and treating her to meals at restaurants. However, receiving a letter from Ma [[spoiler: saying she wants the kids back to live with her side of the family]] brings all of that to end and he abandons her shortly afterwards.
* PetTheDog: For a while, Pa acts decently to Kya, teaching her how to fish, telling her a bit about the family history, giving her things for her marsh collection, and treating her to meals at restaurants. However, receiving a letter from Ma [[spoiler: saying she wants the kids back to live with her side of the family]] brings all of that to end and he abandons her shortly afterwards.
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* SwampsAreEvil: Played with. All the people in Barkley Cove think of the Marsh as something mysterious and dangerous, so a girl surviving out there alone needs to do unspeakable things for it. Therefore, many people fear Kya as much as the Marsh itself.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: At the end of the novel, [[spoiler:Kya and Tate live together happily ever after, spending almost forty years full of joy in their swamp. By then, Tate had abandoned Kya, who had already grown up without family or friends, for five years without notice. Then, Kya was almost raped, murdered her predator and went through a months-long trial with the likely scenario of the death penalty]].
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* AnimalLover: Kya loves all the animals in the swamp and likes to watch them. Her favorite animals are the gulls, who she considers her only friends and recites poems to them.
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* AdoringThePests: Kya' s family used to have a wild skunk hiding below the planks of the but. Pa wanted to chase it away, but Jodie begged him not to, as he had gotten used to it, and a new one would come anyway that they wouldn't know.
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* AdoringThePests: Kya' s Kya's family used to have a wild skunk hiding below the planks of the but. Pa wanted to chase it away, but Jodie begged him not to, as he had gotten used to it, and a new one would come anyway that they wouldn't know.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: From childhood on, Kya is ridiculed and insulted, but also feared by almost everyone around town, simply because she lived so differently.
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* AlliterativeName: Catherine Clark. Subverted as she's usually just called "Kya".
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* NatureHero: Kya lacks social skills to connect with humans, but she is excellent with animals, and she acquires an excellent knowledge of the marsh and its flora and fauna.
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* LonersAreFreaks: With few exceptions, the entire town is all too eager to attribute everything bad to Kya, simply because she's living alone. [[spoiler: When the popular Chase dies violently in the swamp, they all jump to the conclusion that she must be the murderer, without much proof to back it up.]]
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* FirstDayOfSchoolEpisode: Kya is forced to go to school once, where they put her in 2nd grade directly. She faces so much bullying of teachers and classmates alike, that after this single day she never returns to school.
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* WomanScorned: Played for drama. When Tate leaves Kya without telling a word, she succumbs to total isolation, swearing to never trust anyone ever again. This leads to disastrous consequences: [[spoiler: when she is beaten and almost raped by Chase, she doesn't seek help from her friends or her brother Jodie, but instead opts to take things in her own hand and murders Chase.]]
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A film adaptation is scheduled for release on July 22, 2022, directed by Olivia Newman with Creator/DaisyEdgarJones as Kya and Taylor John Smith as Tate.
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A film adaptation is scheduled for release on July 22, 2022, directed by Olivia Newman with Creator/DaisyEdgarJones as Kya and Taylor John Smith as Tate.
Tate. Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, who included the original book as part of her Reese's Book Club, is a producer under her Hello Sunshine label.
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A film adaptation is scheduled for release on July 22, 2022, directed by Olivia Newman with Creator/DaisyEdgarJones as Kya and Taylor John Smith as Tate.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kya observes how female fireflies will sometimes switch their signal to attract a male of another species, only to lure him in and kill him. [[spoiler:The ending of the book reveals she indeed killed Chase, by luring him to the water tower, likely by promising him sex, and then killed him.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Kya observes how female fireflies will sometimes switch their signal to attract a male of another species, only to lure him in and kill him. [[spoiler:The ending of the book reveals she indeed killed Chase, by luring him to the water tower, likely by promising him sex, and then killed him. The name of the poem where she confesses this is even titled "Firefly".]]
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In TheFifties, Kya Clark is a young girl living in a shack in the marsh near the small town of Barkley Cove, North Carolina. As her family abandons her one by one, she learns to survive on her own. As a teenager, she falls in love with Tate Walker, a boy a few years older than herself, who teaches her to read. On October 30, 1969, Chase Andrews, the son of the wealthiest family in town, is found dead by the water tower, and Sheriff Ed Jackson suspects murder. The prime suspect is Kya, aka "Marsh Girl," who is now a young woman.
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In TheFifties, Kya Clark is a young girl living in a shack in the marsh near the small town of Barkley Cove, North Carolina. As her family abandons her one by one, she learns to survive on her own. own.
As a teenager, she falls in love with Tate Walker, a boy a few years older than herself, who teaches her toread. read.
On October 30, 1969, Chase Andrews, the son of the wealthiest family in town, is found dead by the water tower, and Sheriff Ed Jackson suspects murder. The prime suspect is Kya, aka "Marsh Girl," who is now a youngwoman.woman.
As a teenager, she falls in love with Tate Walker, a boy a few years older than herself, who teaches her to
On October 30, 1969, Chase Andrews, the son of the wealthiest family in town, is found dead by the water tower, and Sheriff Ed Jackson suspects murder. The prime suspect is Kya, aka "Marsh Girl," who is now a young
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* MomentOfWeakness: While Pa was fighting in France, his sergeant was shot and fell twenty feet from the foxhole. Everyone scrambled to rescue him except Pa, who was too scared to move. Then a mortar exploded outside the hole, shattering his left femur. It was assumed that he was hit while trying to rescue the sergeant, so was awarded a medal and a medical discharge. Only he knew the truth. Full of shame, Pa descended into alcoholism and gave up on providing a better life for his family.
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* MomentOfWeakness: While Pa was fighting in France, his sergeant was shot and fell twenty feet from the foxhole. Everyone scrambled to rescue him except Pa, who was too scared to move. Then a mortar exploded outside the hole, shattering his left femur. It was assumed that he was hit while trying to rescue the sergeant, so he was awarded a medal and a medical discharge. Only he knew the truth. Full of shame, Pa descended into alcoholism and gave up on providing a better life for his family.
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* MomentOfWeakness: While Pa was fighting in France, his sergeant was shot and fell twenty feet from the foxhole. Everyone scrambled to rescue him except Pa, who was too scared to move. Then a mortar exploded outside the hole, shattering his left femur. It was assumed that he was hit while trying to rescue the sergeant, and was awarded a medal and a medical discharge. Only he knew the truth. Full of shame, Pa descended into alcoholism and gave up on providing a better life for his family.
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* MomentOfWeakness: While Pa was fighting in France, his sergeant was shot and fell twenty feet from the foxhole. Everyone scrambled to rescue him except Pa, who was too scared to move. Then a mortar exploded outside the hole, shattering his left femur. It was assumed that he was hit while trying to rescue the sergeant, and so was awarded a medal and a medical discharge. Only he knew the truth. Full of shame, Pa descended into alcoholism and gave up on providing a better life for his family.
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* AbsenceOfEvidence: The first thing Jackson notices about the scene of Chase's death is that there are no footprints in the much near him or the water tower, leading him to think they were destroyed.
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* DistantFinale: The book ends in 2009, with [[spoiler:64-year-old Kya dying of a heart attack in her boat. The whole town attends her funeral, even though she never visited the town again after her trial. Looking through her shack after her death, Tate finds Chase's shell necklace and a poem Kya wrote strongly implying that she did, in fact, kill him]].
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* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: The poet Amanda Hamilton, whose work Kya often quotes, is actually [[spoiler:Kya herself, publishing her work under a pseudonym in the local paper]].
