48 pages • 1 hour read
Brother
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Chapters 25-27Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide contains discussion of bullying, sexual violence, child abuse, child death, graphic violence, sexual content, cursing, death, suicidal ideation, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.
Chapter 25 Summary
After reading Alice’s comic, Michael returns from the woods and sees Wade fixing his truck. He offers to go with him to the junkyard, but Wade tells him to go inside. He follows a glow into the dining room, where there’s a birthday cake with sparklers.
Reb announces, “Surprise.” Michael sees Lucy duct taped and tied to a chair. Wade brings in Alice, who’s duct-taped too. Reb wants Michael to kill Lucy to confirm his loyalty to the family. In exchange, they’ll keep Alice alive in the basement. After willing himself not to kill Lucy, Michael stabs Lucy in the stomach to prevent Reb from stabbing Alice.
Reb gives Michael his “real” birthday present: the keys to the Delta and a piece of paper with a picture of the little house with green shutters.
Chapter 26 Summary
Michael realizes he’s under the influence of Reb’s “master plan.” As he drives to the house, he cries for all the girls he killed. At the house, he hears a voice that sounds like a law enforcement officer but is only a TV commercial.
The house has many photographs. There’s a photo of a mother and father and their son and daughter. There’s another photo of the family in the green-shuttered home.
