We Need to Talk About Kevin Chapter 16: January 17, 2001 Summary

How It All Goes Down

  • Eva admits to Franklin that she committed perjury when she said she'd never hit her son.
  • Eva leads up to what she did by explaining Kevin's behavior as World's Worst Kindergartner.
  • Eva believes that Kevin convinced all the other kids to break a girl's tea set.
  • Kevin also convinced a girl with eczema to scratch herself until she bled.
  • Franklin, of course, thinks it's all ridiculous.
  • Eva spends almost every minute of the day with Kevin, but Franklin doesn't believe her.
  • Over the summer, Eva tries to get Kevin to practice his alphabet and his arithmetic, but he already seems to know everything.
  • Eva changes six-year-old Kevin's diaper, and he poops the new one.
  • So Eva changes it again. And he poops. Again.
  • Fed up, Eva grabs Kevin and hurls him across the room into the changing table.
  • Dang.