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Want to Know a Secret?

Freida McFadden

Want to Know a Secret?

Freida McFadden

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Want to Know a Secret? Chapters 19-36 Summary & Analysis

Chapter 19 Summary: “April”

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of bullying, disordered eating, sexual content, cursing, harassment, illness, graphic violence, death, and death by suicide.

After the negative comments continue on April’s YouTube, she decides to go to her mother’s care facility to film a video with her. She does it every so often, and it helps bring more positivity to her channel.

She sets up in the kitchen to do a no-bake cheesecake. She is shocked when her mother immediately recognizes her. One of the doctors, Dr. Williams, comes in as he always does to watch the show.

April starts filming and introduces herself. She then introduces her mother. She waits for her mother to say something. After a pause, she says “April is my daughter. […] And she is pure evil” (149).

Chapter 20 Summary: “April”

April’s mother then tells the camera that April is keeping her there against her will. She attacks April, scratching her neck, and then two of the nurses and Dr. Williams pull her off.

April waits in the kitchen for news, eating the cheesecake bites that she brought for the staff. When Dr. Williams returns, he tells April that her mother has been sedated. April wonders aloud if she should try to let her mother move home with her, but Dr.

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