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Kawai Strong WashburnSharks In The Time Of Saviors
Kawai Strong WashburnFiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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BetaPart 4, Chapters 28-31Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Part 4: “Revival”
Chapter 28 Summary: “Malia, 2009, Kalihi”
Augie becomes more dysfunctional after he hears about Dean’s incarceration. He loses his baggage-handling job at the airport. Malia decides she and Augie have no choice but to move in with Augie’s brother on the Big Island.
Chapter 29 Summary: “Kaui, 2009, Portland”
Dean takes the blame for stealing the car and does not mention Kaui’s role. He remains in jail because the family can’t come up with the bail money.
After dumpster diving for food, Kaui decides to return to Hawai‘i. She notices her father has become distant and unresponsive.
Chapter 30 Summary: “Dean, 2009, County Correctional Facility, Oregon”
The judge sentences Dean to 180 days minus time served. He meets Matty, his cell mate, and they hit it off. Dean gets back into playing basketball in prison. He also starts a drug-dealing business with the help of a prison guard and a man on the outside.
Chapter 31 Summary: “Malia, 2009, Honoka‘a”
Kaui walks in on Malia smelling Nainoa’s clothes. She does not try to deny she is sniffing Noa’s clothes and asks Kaui not to judge her. Kaui assures her that there is nothing wrong with missing Nainoa, but she says, “You’d never do that if it was me” (316).
Saddened by the exchange, Malia says, “Of course we’d miss you” (316).
Part 4, Chapters 28-31 Analysis
Kaui’s return and the family’s move to the Big Island sets the stage for the back-to-the-land theme threaded through the end of the novel. The family is now centered back where they originated.
Dean has begun the process of trying to rediscover himself in prison. His rekindled interest in basketball shows that he is recovering from the abandonment of his dream to be an NBA star. Kaui’s sibling rivalry with Nainoa also takes a final turn as she confronts Malia about her mother’s favoritism toward her late brother and her unrealistic expectations of him. Kaui, who was always the most skeptical of Nainoa’s supposed gifts, indirectly forces her mother to consider the role she may have played in Noa’s death: “Did you ever think, maybe he wasn’t what you thought he was?” (316). The painful interaction with Kaui is just one part of the self-reckoning that Malia goes through in these chapters. She also admits to failing her children.
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