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Evelyn helps care for Bride after her husband, Steve, brings her to their warehouse-like house. While Bride thinks Evelyn and Steve’s life is austere life, she cannot help herself from envying their happiness. That envy leads Bride to question whether her pursuit of material success is as important to her as she had thought it was.
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Evelyn Character Timeline in God Help the Child
The timeline below shows where the character Evelyn appears in God Help the Child. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2, Chapter 3
In the warehouse-like building, a woman named Evelyn cares for Bride—Evelyn is the wife of Steve, the man who rescued Bride. They say...
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Bride stays with Steve and Evelyn for six weeks as she recovers and waits for her car to be repaired. At...
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...prove it [is] not her back.” Bride thinks she must be ill, maybe even dying. Evelyn brings Bride some clothes, but they don’t fit, so she brings a pair of Rain’s...
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On a bench in the yard, Evelyn helps Bride dry her hair, and Bride asks Evelyn where Rain came from. Evelyn says...
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While Bride is still at Steve and Evelyn’s house, she decides to write Brooklyn a note to tell her where she is. She...
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Part 2, Chapter 4: Rain
After Bride recovers and leaves Steve and Evelyn’s house, Rain misses her. Before Bride left, she gave Rain a shaving brush. Rain uses...
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