TGOST Ch. 19 & 20

The twins are at the Police Station with Baby, and they tell the investigator that they went to Velutha's house by choice, and that Sophie's death was not murder. The police are not about to let this happen because then they would have killed an innocent person (Velutha). Baby tells a bunch of lies, and she tortures the children so they will go along with her. She is a horrible person as far as I am concerned. I would never be able to live with a secret like that on my shoulders for the rest of my life. First of all, it is horrible that she manipulates the innocent children, and second of all, she does it to go against an innocent man, who could die. I can't believe she is so heartless. I don't care who it is, if they are dying so painfully, how could you lie and just prolong it? I really do not like baby at all!

Baby tells the children that they could go to jail for what happened, but she says that they can get out of it by answering yes to the investigator's question. The officer only needs one of the twins, so Estha then has to go and identify Velutha, who is barely alive. All of his bruises and cuts can be seen from the beating, and it is a very horrible sight. Yet another event to add to the list of things that scarred Estha for life. All Estha does is say yes to the questions he is asked. After all this happens, Baby is afraid that they will find out that she is lying. Ammu must run away without her children, and Estha is sent away to live with his Babu.

The part at the train station is very sad because this is the last time the two will see each other, but they do not know it. "I'll be home for you soon" is said, and we know this is not true, so it is very sad. There are also some things that happened in this chapter that I found quite disturbing, and I will just leave it at that...