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Charlie away and takes him, unexpectedly, to the spot where Laura died. Here, Eliza tells Charlie what she knows about Laura's death. After a violent sexual assault at the hands of her abusive father, Laura came looking for Jasper. Eliza followed her to the clearing. Finding Jasper elsewhere, and believing he left town without her, Laura committed suicide, hanging herself from a tree. Although watching her sister from a nearby hidden spot, Eliza could not reach Laura in time. After hearing Eliza's shocking story, Charlie then confessed that he and Jasper put Laura's body into the dam, and have been trying to prove Jasper's innocence. Jasper discovers Charlie and Eliza, and Charlie repeats Eliza's tale, and the three spend the night under the stars, overcoming their grief.
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The protagonist Charlie Bucktin is a quiet, book-loving, 13-year-old boy who lives in the fictitious rural town of Corrigan, Western Australia. On a summer evening in 1965, Charlie receives an unexpected visit from 14-year-old Jasper Jones, who is excluded by the Corrigan locals because of his
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