Tom now connects the two stories, of the ppurchsing of the tiger and Callanwolde. It is a story that gave me creeps on the inside and i feel really brought the novel full circle. One night as Tom Savannah and his mother were sitting one their couch Callanwolde returns with two other escaped prisoners. They proceed to butally rape all three of them before Luke returns to the house with the tiger and sets him lose on Callanwolde, the other two criminals were beaten to death by Savannah and Tom. But as if this was not shocking enough, their mother refuses to tell anyone of this and demands that Luke and Tom drag the bodies down to the river. When Tom tells this story to Dr. Lowerstein it is the first time it was told since it happened in public.


I have trouble imagining any of these events occuring, much less the vast array of events that occured continuously. That could be something that couldve brought that family togther a bit but it turned into something that split the kids farther from the parents, due to poor parenting