Rosaleen And Sue's Lying: Chapter Analysis

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The chapter starts of with May at the wailing wall. After 20 minutes everyone got flashlights and started to look for May.After looking for a while and having no luck finding May they call the police to try and get more help. They end up finding her lying in the river with a rock on her holding her down. They are all really sad after seeing this and take her out of the water to see if she might still be alive. She ends up dying from drowning in the water. A cop started asking Rosaleen and Lily questions on what happened and asked her why she was at the house. Both of them had to lie about how they got to the honey farm and say where they are going. The cop says that Lily should find a better place to stay because he is probably racist. Later

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