Outside Reading #3

My last post ended with a question about whether the shooting actually happened or if it was just a dream. As I read on I found out that it was no dream, Nina, a lawyer, just decided to shoot the priest in front of the jury and judge. Why would she do this? While as she leads the reader to believe, she thinks she can get away with it!! If she pleads innocent by reason of insanity then she's basically off the hook. To encourage the jury and those around her that she is in fact coo-coo she twitches and keeps repeating the phrase, "I had to do this" (Picoult 153). Although she is pretending to be insane it is my belief she actually is. Caleb, her husband, had to go through this same horrible ordeal of finding out a priest most likely molester his son, and although he had rash emotions in the beginning he cooled off and didn't actually shoot him (152). Nina is in denial. She is insane for taking these rash actions against another human being and she's going to have to deal with the fact she was wrong to shoot him.
Throughout this past section Patrick's feelings for Nina, if changed after the shooting, haven't been revealed. How could they? He's so incredible in shock and confused about what has happened still, and I can't blame him. Caleb's overall feeling haven't changed, however he is still in disbelief about what his wife did. She was fully aware of what she was doing and didn't even talk to him about it before hand. He's starting to get extremely angry. Caleb goes to a bar one night and has a conversation with the bartender, but he's pretending to be somebody else. He just is relieved to get away and not be himself for a short while as the author says, "Caleb doesn't know why he is not telling the businessman the truth-but prevarication comes so easily, and the knowledge that this man will buy anything he says right now is oddly liberating" (171). I'm looking forward to reading the next chapters. Will Nina go to jail, will she tell the truth? How about, will Patrick and Caleb turn their backs to Nina??