He says, "We're going home," but Lily tells him that she's not leaving. August comes in and tells T. Ray that Lily can live with her as long as she wants. The Daughters all show up, and T. Ray tries to think of a way to save face. August perceives his confusion and explains to the Daughters that T. Ray is Lily's father who has come to visit. He looks at all the strong women and falters.
August says she is teaching Lily beekeeping and she will put Lily in school in the fall. Ray leaves, slamming the door. But Lily goes running after his truck. She wants to know if she really did kill her mother.
He tells her she did, but that she didn't mean to. It is November now, and June and Neil are married. Lunelle created a hat for Lily to wear that is fabulous. Clayton Forrest comes by to say that the Sylvan police will be dropping the charges against Lily and Rosaleen. Lily becomes friends with Forrest's daughter, Becca.
Zach, Lily, and Becca see each other at school, and Lily doesn't mind that the other teenagers call them "nigger lovers. Lily keeps her mother's picture beside her. She feels closer to Mary, too, who fills the sadness in her heart.
Then she remembers how all the Daughters stood up for her that day; Lily realizes that she is no longer motherless. The last chapter presents the culmination of many themes in the story and demonstrates the lessons of maturity Lily has internalized.
Forgiveness, self-confidence, understanding, and knowledge are all ideas that show Lily's growth as a human being. The chapter also ties up loose ends, such as the question of T. Ray and where he fits in Lily's future. Lily is beginning to reach some understanding about her parents. Before, she was a cowering victim of her father, but now she faces him down and even considers his perspective and feelings.
In most ways, she is a better human than he is. When she realizes that he sees her as her mother, she can begin to understand why he treated her so badly. It must have been a terrible blow to his ego to marry his pregnant girlfriend, and then see her leave him, realizing that the community knew, too.
Ray before, but when she screams it, T. Ray recognizes her and sees that he is hurting her, not her mother. When Lily refuses to bend to him and explains that she, too, is leaving him, she does so fully understanding that she has chosen a community of women over her own father. Even T. Ray seems to recognize that she is different, more grown up, and better off in the company of strong women. Distraught from this revelation, Lily decided to leave home.
After writing T. Ray a nasty note, she set out to break Rosaleen out of jail. She decided she was going to go to nearby Tiburon, since based on the black Mary picture her mother probably knew people there. While she was trekking back to the police station to fetch Rosaleen, Brother Gerald drove by. Lily told him she going to visit Rosaleen to bring her clothes. He said he himself was on his way to the same place—to press charges against Rosaleen for the stolen fans.
So, Lily fed him more lies to get him on Rosaleen's side, telling him that Rosaleen stole the fans due to a misunderstanding and that Rosaleen's fight started because she insisted on singing her favorite hymns. The trick worked, and he ended up telling the police he wouldn't sign the warrant against Rosaleen. However, Rosaleen wasn't actually at the police station when Lily and Brother Gerald got there; she had had an "accident" and needed stitches, so she was sent to the hospital.
Lily didn't believe that explanation of her friend's injuries for a second, of course. Lily then scurried off to the hospital to rescue Rosaleen. Team of Vipers by Cliff Sims. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone by J. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. The Iliad by Homer. The Rhythm Section by Mark Burnell. You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero.
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