The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Chapters 20-30)

Mary and everyone are still traveling when Cass breaks down. She is screaming that they all go back and find more water. But everyone disagrees because there is nothing to go back too. Then they see the letters again and they know they must follow them because it will lead to something. "Harry's eyes are not on me but on his brother as he lets me go, a small possessive smile on his face" (CX) (184). To me that is really annoying because they are both fighting over her when they have bigger things to worry about.
Finally they reach a path that says XIV which is what Gabrielle wrote on her window and they see a village just up ahead.

 So they all run to it. Rejoicing that maybe they are not the only ones left. But there are no people, just more Unconsecrated. So they run towards the ladder but Travis cannot climb it so Mary and Travis run to a house while everyone else runs up the ladder. They box themselves in and finally they are alone. But Mary starts to get really annoying because she completely ignores Travis. After all that wanting for them to be alone and they finally get it, she goes off where he cannot get to her and sits by herself watching the others.
Finally the Unconsecrated break into the house. Travis and Mary hurry out and they both barely get out alive. They talk to the others and they explain that they cannot leave until winter because that is when they will be at there weakest. Travis then tells Mary that he talked to Gabrielle and she has seen the ocean and it is not safe. "She told me the Unconsecrated rise from the waters and still walk the beaches. That there's no way to fence it off- no way to protect your self" (S) (254). Mary gets all mad and then she finds out that Travis was never going to come for her. So their relationship is pretty much over.
Before getting over to the other side, Mary found these books so she brought them with her as proof there is something more. She has found that the numbers in this book do mean something and there is some sort of pattern.
I think that there plan to wait until winter will not work. I think someone else is going to die. This book will not have a happy ending.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth (Chapters 13-19)

In chapter 13 Sister Tabitha explains that it is a miracle that she was ever born. And then she starts telling her to appreciate her life and that she is being selfish because she only thinks for herself. "I am struck with the knowledge of my own selfishness. That this woman in front of me knows more about my mother than I ever did or ever will" (S) (117). That is when Harry walks in and this will be the last night that they have to call of everything. Travis never came so she has to be with Harry. I don't understand why she finds Harry so repulsive. He bought her a puppy and is trying to make her happy. When she told him what she believed, that she wants to leave because she knows there is more out there, he says "We will find a way to make you happy" (S)(121).

When they wake up the sirens are going off. Mary is kind of on a daze but then she sees Gabrielle in her red vest streak past and she knows that the Unconsecrated are among them. The chapters continue with them trying to escape the Unconsecrated and when they arrive at the Church they see Sister Tabitha being attacked by Gabriella. They cannot believe that. When they run away to the mysterious path, they see Travis coming there way. They all stand, not knowing what to do.  The decide to come back to the village in the morning because there are to many of them. Mary still wonders about Travis actually loving her. She still battles with what is right and what she wants. "Every night I drown and every morning I wake up struggling to breathe" (S)(146).
After they decide to stay where they are they see Jed, Mary's brother, and his wife Beth, which is Harry's and Travis's sister. Jed tells them that in this path they have been filling it with food and water for a while because that is what the Sisterhood instructed them to do. Harry gets all weird and gets mad that he was never told because he is a Guardian. But after that Jed secretly tells Mary that Beth has been bitten.

Mary proceeds to tell Jed that it is not safe and he has to kill Beth. But Jed explains that he cannot just shoot someone he loves, and he goes on to say that without love their is no point in living, and that is what Mary believes. So she keeps his secret hoping that she will not turn.
That evening they come across some crate that says XVIII. They do not know what those letters mean. Inside is just more food and water so they rest for the night. During the night Gabrielle and the other Unconsecrated come. They leave immediately and they have all realized that there village is gone, that no one has survived and have stopped fighting. That is hard to comprehend and I do not blame them. Knowing that all your loved ones are lost to the Unconsecrated. They find paths to take and they just have to guess where they should go, but they end up in a dead end.
Mary then starts to lose it. She sees Travis hugging Cass and she gets super jealous so she lashes out on Jed and tells them all about Beth finally. That causes some uproar and Mary runs away. She wanders down the paths and is calling out for Gabrielle. I do not know if that is such a good idea but she does it anyway. Gabrielle comes a little slower this time. Like her body is finally catching up to her. She tells her she's sorry and walks away. Mary then continues to find more roman numeral numbers on the paths. And she knows that they have to have some sort of pattern but she can't figure it out. She finds Cass and Cass tells Mary that they killed Beth and are burying her now. Mary feels the shame and that she never got to say goodbye. She decides not to tell them about the letters because she does not want to get there hopes up. I cannot blame her. I have no idea how they are going to survive.