Chapters 24-28 Summary

Chapter 24 begins Part 4, the last section of Hush. The chapter begins with Evie saying the pledge to the flag, and singing America the Beautiful—both things her mother's religion has forbidden. Evie says that she does not want life everlasting, "I wanted that moment—right there, right then." (p. 161). Mira asks her where she has been, since she has missed practice, and she says that she is not running any more. Mira walks away, and Evie is sad. She goes home, where her mother cries all the time. She tells Evie about how her father is doing. Evie says that her father is recovering. She says that you run the quarter mile in splits, or increments, and you have to focus on the little pieces to make the big pieces make sense.

As Anna prepares to leave for Massachusetts...