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Need Help (contains spoilers)


At the end was it chris who stabbed deff with the knife and at the end with chris in the hospital was that real or a dream.

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The ending is kind of open... but most of the evidence suggests that Chris dies. He wakes up to find himself in the hospital, then the balloon pops and he is back int he water wading out again. It depends on how you look at the balloon i guess as well, as its symbolism is never actually revealed. Green actually stated that it just meant somthing to him, and that hopefully it will mean somthing to other people who see it in theirown way.
You cna make the case that he's either alive, or dead.

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Im pretty sure he died. The uncle heald him under for a while. Plus, if he lived, he would have popped up as soon as the uncle let go, and I don't think that the uncle would have let go until he was sure that chris was dead.

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unless he passed out and as soon as the uncle got stabbed he got out and maybe that runaway girl sneaked in and got him out, she kind of disapeared after she hid Tim (which wasn't really a good hiding spot to b honest!)

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When someone drowns, the body sinks. As the body starts to decay and produces gases, it rises. This is why, when someone goes missing, they drag the river. That is drag a rake-like device on the bottom to dislodge the body. So Chris wasn't going to "pop up" anytime soon if he had drowned.

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