Part 3, Delivery, Fall 1993, Chapter 42, Paige Summary

Paige falls into a stress-induced trance, wandering through the streets of Cambridge, unaware of her surroundings. The only thing Paige can think is that her baby is dead. Paige begins to scream at God, asking why he did not take her instead. Paige lies on the concrete and feels someone slip his arms around her and pulls her off the ground. Paige knows it is her savior.

Part 3, Delivery, Fall 1993, Chapter 42, Paige Analysis

Paige is falling apart in this climactic scene in which she screams at God for taking her first child and now her second too. Paige is convinced that God is punishing her for some wrong she committed. This chapter is a culmination of everything Paige believes and everything that has happened to her since her childhood coming down on her all at...