Chapter 12

Content:

The next morning Doctor Fairweather comes from Braymouth to the Hospital in order to check the state of health of Grandpa. He absolutely advise them to take Grandpa into an hospital (e.g. in Braymouth) and not to waist his time any longer at the cottage. However, Grandpa doesn't want to go to hospital. So Mr Fairwether comes a week long straight the way up to the cottage and looks for Grandpa, but this isn't enough for taking care of Grandpa in an adequate way: The whole family has to help Grandpa mostly in every doings of everyday life.
Jess doesn't do anything else, except swimming and so she doesn't make thoughts about the river or the river boy. Only the painting of Grandpa takes her sometimes back in the flavour of mystery. Nevertheless the biggest thoughts are about his health and his close death.
After a week, Grandpa loses his will to stay at the cottage and that really moves Jess. She sees a Grandpa giving up his life in this action and that hurts her a lot.
She runs out in the river and begins to cry, when a quiet voice speaks to her from behind: "Why are you crying?"

My thoughts while reading:

To my mind the story is going to rise up to the highest point of tension of the whole book. It is going to come to the climax.
The situation of Grandpa becomes really bad and he is near to his death. I don't think that there's any hope for him to rescue his life. Nevertheless, I asked myself while reading: What'll happen with the painting? Will he able to finish it? Perhaps in the hospital the doctors will give him a last strength in his hands by a medicament, otherwise I don't think that this'll be actually possible.
Of course, I asked myself also who talked to Jess in the end. Maybe it'll be Mum, Dad or Alfred but I don't think so, because Jess stands in the river. So it makes the most sense at all if it is the river boy or a new person who doesn't exist in my mind yet.