66 pages • 2 hours read
The Water Keeper
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Chapters 11-21Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of illness, death, child death, graphic violence, child sexual abuse, child abuse, physical abuse, and substance use.
Chapter 11 Summary
Murph takes Summer to buy new clothes. She chooses the cheapest ones, but Murph insists on buying nicer clothes, no matter the price. They then go sit in a dog park so that Tabby can play.
Summer tries to tell Murph about something in her past that will “change [his] opinion of [her]” (90). However, Murph dismisses her, insisting that everyone has made mistakes. She then thanks him for everything but says that she isn’t “worthy” of being helped. Again, Murph dismisses her.
Summer and Murph go to find some dinner. On the way, Summer asks to stop at a bookstore, where she buys the 13th book in the Bishop series. She excitedly talks about it as they eat, insisting that Murph needs to read it.
Throughout dinner, Tabby is fidgety and doesn’t eat, so Murph checks on him. Tabby manages to get loose from the chair he is tied to and then takes off running across the nearby East Orange Avenue Bridge.
Chapter 12 Summary
Murph follows Tabby to a nearby sports complex. Tabby goes into the stands and starts licking the face of a man lying in the bleachers. The man is unresponsive. Murph goes across the street to the fire station for help, and then two paramedics put the man on a gurney and give him an IV.
