"She had escaped in the car just as we expected. But she had unbuckled us, it turns out only to stall us, so that she and her sisters could die in peace."
This passage is extremely powerful due to its many multiple meanings. Lux did escape her life in the car however, the initial plan was to drive away and be free in another place not to commit suicide and the boys had not expected Lux's actions so by saying they did adds to the irony and tragedy to the situation. It also exemplifies how miserable it is that when the girls had a chance to live a better life they chose to die instead. The next part of the phrases use multiple meanings of words that could refer to a car but also the emotions and actions in the scene. "Unbuckled," can refer to the literal action of unbuckling the boys pant. You can also unbuckle a seatbelt in a car and unbuckled could refer to throwing someone of track and distracting themselves from their goal. Furthering the idea that unbuckled in this phrase is used as a way to confuse the boys and distract them is using the pronoun "us," Lux only literally unbuckled the pants of one boy leaving the reader to believe that "unbuckling," is meant to be taken figuratively in this sense. Stall also could refer to a car or to the literal meaning of preventing the boys from finding the dead Libson girls before they had successfully ended their lives.
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