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Stephanie

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Chloe

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Anne

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Berit Lundqvist

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Kristin

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Jennifer Dunn The sequel, Us Against You, clarifies this.

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Katie Ryan

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Susie I am so glad you asked! I thought I had missed something.

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Kitty

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Vikki What happens to ana

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Errol

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Cathy Cucinella I don't think the book was about hockey! It was about a game a whole town had in common.....
I was very upset about the fact that people didn't care more about Maya and her feelings. No parent ever said "If it were my daughter". So unfair. I wonder what happened to Ana.

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Michael Kleiner I just finished Beartown last night and still trying to get my emotions around it. And the comments here are a year or so before. As some reviews say, it's not an easy book, hard when seeing the town's reaction to the rape. Not one parent--mother--of the hockey players had any empathy or approached Maya? Except for Bobo's mother, who as a nurse saw Maya in the hospital and believed her. Where are the connected dots that the Anderssons waited a week before reporting it to the police so it could infringe on the team winning the championship? Peter was invested in the success of the team and before the semifinal told an NHL scout how talented Kevin was and he was a good kid with good grades. Maya took a few days before telling her parents. It's interesting who the "moralists" were. Part of the friendship of Kevin and Benji was Benji was the enforcer on the ice protecting the superstar. He tells Kevin at the end, "remember I'm the only one you can never lie to." When Maya and Ana show up at the party, Benji leaves and tells Kevin "how can you invite 15 year olds to the party?" He knows Kevin best. He doesn't join the team in supporting Kevin. Benji turns out to be gay--not that an enforcer can't be gay--but given the macho of the sport and the view homosexuality is immoral. Amat says the hell with the loyalty to the team, loyalty to the truth is more important and he knows what he saw. Before he was promoted to juniors, he was bullied by the juniors as the immigrant child of the woman who cleaned the rink. All of a sudden when he scores in the semifinal, he is "accepted." Bobo supports his new friend and neighbor Amat when the team comes after Amat. Bobo is respectful of relationships with women. Benji destroys the bathroom at school so they don't think Maya did it. "Your mistake Maya is that you still think Kevin is my best friend." Zacharius breaks into the school to scrub "bitch" off Maya's locker as his "silent protest." Kevin's mother ends up not believing her son and the only one to visit Maya. After all the talk about loyalty to Beartown, the other players and parents go off to Hed. The four good people stay in Beartown. Because of Benji being the pothead and testing the limits and David leaving the puck and watch at a grave, Benji is the obvious one to think died and that's sad. Zacharius makes sense to die, except at the end his friendship with Amat is rekindled. If Amat and Benji become pros, their friendship with Bobo remains because of the scene at Kevin's party where in 10 years time (I forgot all the references to 10 years in time, but remember the references to the future) Bobo and Amat will remember when they became friends. Which could mean Bobo became a pro, except he wasn't talented enough. At the beginning of the book, it says someone goes into the forest and kills themself and "this is the story of how we got to this point." I may have to go back and reread that. Not a great way to start but it created the mystery of who it will be. Despite the preparation, I couldn't see Maya killing Kevin--for which she would have been arrested. She needed to scare him as much as he had scared her, "so you can live the rest of your life afraid of the dark, too." The ending is interesting, too, as Kevin is the one married with the pregnant wife in front of an rink that he pays no mind to while the singing superstar enters for a concert and he recognizes Maya and it "freezes' him. That would imply Kevin didn't make the NHL and left hockey. And maybe he reformed himself. Part of me hoped Amat and Maya got married, that a friendship developed as a result of him giving her the guitar, the "only one she ever plays now." Maybe they did, since now I know there's a trilogy.

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Steve I don't think this is that difficult to figure out, but is intriguing. David leaves puck on Benji's dad's gravestone which he knows will be visited regularly by him. He reiterates his past statement about him being the bravest bastard...
He says this again to him by way of the puck after he knows his sexual identity and acknowledges this makes no difference to who he is or how he sees him today (he is alive). He becomes a pro hockey player along with Amat. Bobo is clearly the dad which is foreshadowed by his being a virgin and wanting to save himself. And that leaves....

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Rachel S. Actually, you learn all the answers in the sequel "Us against You".

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Jake Parrish Us Against You tells us

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Kara

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Stacy

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Maureen So, we are not supposed to know for sure who is who but Amat has talent so he probably is a pro, the second pro could be any of the three remaining but Benji has the best chance. Benji always flirts with danger and does drugs so he could have the best chance of dying, we get to fill in the blanks. Benji definitely could have been a pro and the one who dies seeing his photo was on TV.

Kevin was not killed by Maya, just frightened intentionally so he had to leave with that fear. Kevin was not included in the four who the author spoke of in ten years.

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Courtney

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Erin Coleman

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Cathy I agree that Benji becomes a professional hockey player. Earlier in the book, David had left a puck on Benji's father's grave because he knew Benji would find it there. I think he leaves another puck and his watch on the same grave. I am still left wondering about the other 3 boys.

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ANNE CLAUSEN

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Rita I think Ana is married to Bobo, just my opinion. I too was confused about Bengi possibly being dead, after the watch & puck are left on a grave, but hope he lives!

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Jerry Benji dies. (Recall the passage about David's watch on a gravestone? Bravest bastard I ever knew, etc.?)

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Ruby Ford How could Kevin have a wife in ten years if Maya killed him

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Laurence

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Erin how did benji die

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Johannes I agree with the rest here, Zacharias would have killed himself by now, Bobo wil be the father, Amat and Benji are the ones who will become professional players.

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Dresen

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Linda

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Janet Anderson

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Ali Greene

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Elizabeth Who killed Benjamin in Beartown

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Jeanniedk I think Amat and Benji play for the NHL. The guitar player see Benji on TV because Benji became a famous hockey player and it is his obit. And Amat will be the dad.

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Kalyne

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Brian Blondahl

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Rachel

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Matt Guerin I think that its amat and zach that are pros both in esports and ijn hockey respectively, i think bobo is a dad seeing as he said he wants someone to love and not to just fuc and benji is most likely dead.

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Gail Thurston What happens to the four boys in the book Beartown

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Margaret Deskin

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cheryl hughes Does Benjamin die in Bear town

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Eleanor At the end of beartown it says ine is deadwho

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Raimonda Porter I had the same question and felt I missed something. So glad everyone else has the same quandary. Didn't know that there is a follow up to this book. Thanks to all of you for your comments.

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