Workbook for Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens E-Book

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• Herausgeber: MaxHelp
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Any reader can use this workbook for Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and find immediate help in applying its major lessons.

Where The Crawdads Sing is the debut novel written by author Delia Owens. The book has been on the New York Times Bestseller List for an outstanding two years since its release, a marvelous feat achieved by a first time writer. The book has already sold more than 7 million copies worldwide and was a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick.
A coming of age story of a six-year-old girl named Kya, the book touches on many themes such as survival under unfavorable conditions, seclusion, and social acceptance. It is a quest to find real and unadulterated love shrouded by the mystery of a murder..

Do you want to apply the major lessons to your daily life? The goal of this workbook is to help even the any reader apply what may be the most critical lessons found in Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Results have shown that learning is retained best through repeated hands-on applications. With Max Help Workbooks, readers will be able to find distilled information with applicable engaging exercise worksheets to maximize learning.
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• Succinct breakdown of the book categorized into major lessons
• Read and use the exercises yourself or as a group
• Easy-to-understand analysis of each lessons distilled for even the newest of readers
• Simple and practical worksheets to further reader’s application
• Quiz questions as a resource to be used for yourself or others

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Leseprobe

Workbook for

Where the Crawdads Sing

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Delia Owens

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Finding Freedom

1. Book Abstract: Where the Crawdads

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Complete beginners can begin using this workbook for Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens to get immediate help of the major lessons found in this book.

The goal of this workbook is to help even the newest readers to begin applying major lessons from Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferris. Results have shown us that learning is retained better through repeated real-life applications.

By using this workbook, readers will find categorized lessons that we believed were major in defining the crucial messages of the author in the book. There are questions devoted both for self or corporate usage and actionable steps through charts and analysis tables to stimulate a continued engagement with the main lessons in the book.

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Table of Contents

1. Book Abstract: Where the Crawdads

2. About the Author: Delia Owens

3. Important Notes About This Book

4. Beyond its Publication

5. Quiz Questions

6. Quiz Answers

7. Gift: Bonus Bestselling Workbooks

Book Abstract for Where the Crawdads

Where The Crawdads Sing is the first attempt of Delia Owens at writing fiction after spending a considerable amount of time exploring the lush landscapes and wilderness of Africa with her husband, Mark Owens. After living in the wild for around twenty years, the couple returned to the United States and started working on environmental rehabilitation and raising awareness for wildlife conservation.

Where the Crawdads Sing, written by Delia Owens, is the story of a six-year-old girl named Kya Clark as she grows up from a child into a woman. The story starts one day in 1952 when Kya's mother walks down the lane leading from their rundown shack into the North Carolina marshlands. When her mother never returns, Kya and her older siblings are left to live with their alcoholic and abusive father.

As time passes, all the siblings abandon the shack one by one leaving Kya alone with her father whom she calls Pa and wondering how she's going to care for herself. Kya learns to cook and do the daily chores so that her father wouldn't beat her up. She goes to the nearby town of Barkley Cove to get supplies, but she is looked down upon by everyone who deems her "swamp trash." Pleased with her cooking, her father decides to take her fishing in the marsh and introduces her to Jumpin', who owns a gas dock and bait shop. Apart from her father, Jumpin' is the only person Kya interacts with, though she also has brief meetings in the marsh with a boy named Tate. Kya tries to blend in with the town folks and attends school for a day but gets bullied by other children who mock her for being a swamp rat. She is illiterate but learns to survive on her own when her father eventually abandons her for good. She tries selling mussels and fish to Jumpin to earn money, and his wife, Mabel, offers her clothes out of pity.

A 19-year-old boy named Tate is interested in Kya and starts leaving gifts for her in the form of rare bird feathers. He also tries to leave a note for her but upon catching her off-guard, she tries to run away. However, when he offers to teach her to read and write, friendship blossoms between the two and they start spending as much time together as possible. Consequently, Kya falls in love with poetry and connects with the poems of a local poet, Amanda Hamilton, whose works are published in the town paper.

Tate accepts a summer job at a school's biology research lab owing to his interest in wildlife sparked by his time spent with Kya. He promises to meet her again soon, but he doesn’t come back. One day, while waiting for him, she sees a female firefly flash her light to attract a male of a different species, a predatory move that traps the male as the firefly eats her prey. Despite its seeming mercilessness, Kya understands that this was how nature workedーthat there was no morality when it comes to survival in the wilderness.

Kya decides to never give away her heart again, but she soon meets another boy named Chase, whom she finds attractive. Desperate to overcome her loneliness, she befriends him, but Chase wants nothing but to use and throw her away. As he gains her trust, he tries to force himself on her one day, but Kya manages to escape. Even though Kya feels angry and violated, she accepts Chase's apologyーpromising never to repeat his mistakeーand gifts him a necklace made from seashells found on the beach. Over the next years, the two become romantically involved, and she eventually sleeps with him, not realizing that he doesn't love her.

1966, Tate returns to the marsh, having finished school and enrolled for a Ph.D. in protozoology. He apologizes to Kya for abandoning her, but she screams at him. Tate informs her about Chase's true nature, sharing that he was involved with many other women, but she doesn't believe him. Wanting to make it up to her, Tate requests to see her collection of shells and feathers, which has grown significantly since his last meeting with her. He proposes to help her publish a book on the wealth of wildlife she amassed over the years and leaves with a sample to show potential publishers.

Kya doesn't confront Chase but starts asking him to take her to meet his family, a thing he keeps delaying stating one reason or the other. One day, Kya goes into the town and sees Chase with a young woman and learns through a newspaper that he was engaged to that woman named Pearl. Kya stops seeing Chase but is still upset with Tate for leaving her.

A year after, Chase tries to rape her by catching her off guard. She escapes and threatens to kill him if he tries to harm again. However, Rodney Horn, a fisherman who happens to be nearby hears Kya’s words that are used to pin her as a suspect for Chase's murder later that year. During her long trial, Tate provides her with moral and emotional support and stands by her when no one else would. This leads Kya to finally forgive Tate, and they rekindle their romance. Kya's lawyer, Tom Milton, skilfully defends her case by pointing to a lack of incriminating evidence, an argument held by the jury to clear Kya of all the accusations.

Once more, Tate apologizes for leaving Kya. The two reconcile and live a happy married life, as Tate starts working as a research biologist and Kya publishes seven books about North Carolina’s wildlife. They grow old together, and Kya passes away at the age of 64 while boating in the marsh. After Kya's funeral, Tate looks for her will. He finds Chase's shell necklace and a poem that Kya secretly wrote under the pseudonym, Amanda Hamilton, hidden under their floorboards. Entitled "The Firefly," it reveals once and for all that she had lured Chase to the fire tower and tricked him into falling through an open hatch.