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2,592	83_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's December first, the day of the launch--Stone Hill is surrounded by a massive crowd of people from all over the world. Our three proto-astronauts are greeted by a decent rendition of "Yankee Doodle," and J.T. Maston tries one last time to get into the capsule. He is rebuffed one last time, though. Poor guy. Finally...	[ "The first of December had arrived! the fatal day! for, if the\nprojectile were not discharged that very night at 10h. 48m. 40s.\nP.M., more than eighteen years must roll by before the moon\nwould again present herself under the same conditions of zenith\nand perigee.", "The weather was magnificent. Despite the ...
2,593	83_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The launch has some nasty side-effects. For one, there's an earthquake in Florida, which knocks the crowd over "like ears of corn before a storm" . Meanwhile, the sky is now completely "covered with clouds" and doesn't clear up for some time, making it impossible to track to capsule's progress. Finally, the sky clears ...	[ "At the moment when that pyramid of fire rose to a prodigious\nheight into the air, the glare of flame lit up the whole of\nFlorida; and for a moment day superseded night over a\nconsiderable extent of the country. This immense canopy of fire\nwas perceived at a distance of one hundred miles out at sea, and\nmore ...
2,594	83_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	That night, the Gun Club receives a message from J.T. Maston at the Cambridge Observatory--he has seen the capsule. Unfortunately, though, it "has not reached its goal" and is instead orbiting the moon. There are two possible outcomes: Either the capsule will eventually get pulled to the moon's surface, or it will cont...	[ "That very night, the startling news so impatiently awaited,\nburst like a thunderbolt over the United States of the Union,\nand thence, darting across the ocean, ran through all the\ntelegraphic wires of the globe. The projectile had been\ndetected, thanks to the gigantic reflector of Long's Peak!\nHere is the no...
2,595	10068_part_1:_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Tench, an English dentist living in Mexico, braves the blazing sun to get the ether cylinder he ordered. Eying a few bored vultures and feeling rebellious against death, he tosses a wrenched piece of the road at the birds, but only one flies off. Death can't be scared away that easily! After passing a man with a gu...	[ "THE BIRTH OF A WOMAN-CHILD", "\"Whose cradle's that?\" the sick woman's thin querulous tones arrested\nthe man at the threshold.", "\"Onie Dillard's,\" he replied hollowly from the depths of the crib which\nhe carried upside down upon his head, like some curious kind of\novergrown helmet.", "\"Now, why in th...
2,596	10068_part_1:_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A neatly-dressed lieutenant returns to the station with squad of ragged police, asks where the chief is, but gets no answer. He turns to dolling out punishments to prisoners--fines to some, cleaning out bathrooms and cells to others. Think we'd prefer the former. The police chief enters, complaining of a toothache and ...	[ "THE BIRTH OF AN AMBITION", "All day the girl had walked steadily, her bare feet comforted by the\nwarm dust, shunning the pebbles, never finding sham stones in the way,\nmaking friends with the path--that would always be Johnnie. From the\nlittle high-hung valley in the remote fastnesses of the Unakas where she\...
2,597	10068_part_1:_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Singing happily to himself over the motor of his canoe, Captain Fellows returns to his home on the river. Entering his bungalow, he receives a cold welcome from his wife, who seems frightened at his arrival, but he doesn't let her worries get him down. Captain Fellows asks where their daughter Coral is, his wife says w...	[ "A PEAK IN DARIEN", "So walking, and so desultorily talking, they came out on a noble white\nhighway that wound for miles along the bluffy edge of the upland\noverlooking the valley upon the one side, fronted by handsome residences\non the other.", "It was Johnnie's first view of a big valley, a river, or a cit...
2,598	10068_part_1:_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The final chapter of Part One returns the reader to the stories of Mr. Tench, Padre Jose, the pious mother, Coral Fellows, and the lieutenant--people whose lives are being affected by the whisky priest. Wishing to communicate to those who knew him that he's still alive, Mr. Tench composes a letter to his estranged wife...	[ "OF THE USE OF FEET", "The suburb of Cottonville bordered a creek, a starveling, wet-weather\nstream which offered the sole suggestion of sewerage. The village was\ncut in two by this natural division. It clung to the shelving sides of\nthe shallow ravine; it was scattered like bits of refuse on the numerous\nrai...
2,595	10068_part_1:_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The first chapter of The Power and the Glory centers upon the meeting between Mr. Tench, the English dentist who is living in Mexico, and the priest-protagonist, who presents himself to Tench as a "quack." The priest secretly plans to escape further religious persecution by sailing to Vera Cruz on the General Obregon, ...	[ "THE BIRTH OF A WOMAN-CHILD", "\"Whose cradle's that?\" the sick woman's thin querulous tones arrested\nthe man at the threshold.", "\"Onie Dillard's,\" he replied hollowly from the depths of the crib which\nhe carried upside down upon his head, like some curious kind of\novergrown helmet.", "\"Now, why in th...
2,596	10068_part_1:_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, the Chief of Police informs the lieutenant that he has heard that there is still a priest practicing in Mexico and that this priest attempted to "get away last week to Vera Cruz." The pink and flabby jefe complains that the Governor is pressuring him to capture the priest, although he has no idea what ...	[ "THE BIRTH OF AN AMBITION", "All day the girl had walked steadily, her bare feet comforted by the\nwarm dust, shunning the pebbles, never finding sham stones in the way,\nmaking friends with the path--that would always be Johnnie. From the\nlittle high-hung valley in the remote fastnesses of the Unakas where she\...
2,597	10068_part_1:_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The scene changes: Captain Fellows, the director of the Central American Banana Company, is greeted by his wife, Trix, as he returns home from a business trip upriver. She informs him that a policeman is talking with their daughter, Coral, who arranged for the officer to sleep overnight on the veranda. Now, the officer...	[ "A PEAK IN DARIEN", "So walking, and so desultorily talking, they came out on a noble white\nhighway that wound for miles along the bluffy edge of the upland\noverlooking the valley upon the one side, fronted by handsome residences\non the other.", "It was Johnnie's first view of a big valley, a river, or a cit...
2,598	10068_part_1:_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, structured like a multi-scene collage, Greene shows us: Mr. Tench, the dentist, waiting for a patient and beginning a letter to his estranged wife, Sylvia, and then hearing the bell of the General Obregon; the frail old ship has returned from Vera Cruz. Meanwhile, Padre Jose fearing that little Anita's...	[ "OF THE USE OF FEET", "The suburb of Cottonville bordered a creek, a starveling, wet-weather\nstream which offered the sole suggestion of sewerage. The village was\ncut in two by this natural division. It clung to the shelving sides of\nthe shallow ravine; it was scattered like bits of refuse on the numerous\nrai...
2,595	10068_part_i_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel opens with Mr. Tench, an English dentist living and working in a small Mexican town, heading from his home to the riverside to pick up a canister of ether that he has ordered. The ships have come in, and Tench stands in the blazing Mexican sun, watching the rickety boats and continually forgetting why he has ...	[ "THE BIRTH OF A WOMAN-CHILD", "\"Whose cradle's that?\" the sick woman's thin querulous tones arrested\nthe man at the threshold.", "\"Onie Dillard's,\" he replied hollowly from the depths of the crib which\nhe carried upside down upon his head, like some curious kind of\novergrown helmet.", "\"Now, why in th...
2,596	10068_part_i_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the police station, the lieutenant observes his squad of ragtag policemen with distaste. A stern man, he metes out punishment to a group of prisoners who have been jailed for minor offenses and waits for the jefe, or chief, to arrive. The jefe informs the lieutenant that he has spoken with the governor, who believes...	[ "THE BIRTH OF AN AMBITION", "All day the girl had walked steadily, her bare feet comforted by the\nwarm dust, shunning the pebbles, never finding sham stones in the way,\nmaking friends with the path--that would always be Johnnie. From the\nlittle high-hung valley in the remote fastnesses of the Unakas where she\...
2,597	10068_part_i_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Captain Fellows is an American living in Mexico with Mrs. Fellows, his wife, and his young daughter, running the "Central American Banana Company. " He returns home one day and his wife informs him that his daughter, Coral Fellows is speaking with a police officer about a priest who is at large in the area. The police ...	[ "A PEAK IN DARIEN", "So walking, and so desultorily talking, they came out on a noble white\nhighway that wound for miles along the bluffy edge of the upland\noverlooking the valley upon the one side, fronted by handsome residences\non the other.", "It was Johnnie's first view of a big valley, a river, or a cit...
2,598	10068_part_i_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Tench sits at his worktable, writing a letter to his wife Sylvia, with whom he has not had any contact for many years. He finds it hard to begin, his thoughts drift, and he thinks about the stranger who visited his house. Someone knocks at the door and he abandons the letter for the time being. Padre Jose walking i...	[ "OF THE USE OF FEET", "The suburb of Cottonville bordered a creek, a starveling, wet-weather\nstream which offered the sole suggestion of sewerage. The village was\ncut in two by this natural division. It clung to the shelving sides of\nthe shallow ravine; it was scattered like bits of refuse on the numerous\nrai...
2,599	600_part_1,chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Before we begin we are faced with an "Author's Note," which tells us that the narrator and the diary we're reading are fictional. Although this particular Underground Man is made-up, the author says, surely there must be people like him in the world, mostly because of society. The first segment of the work functions as...	[ "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I\nbelieve my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my\ndisease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a\ndoctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and\ndoctors. Besides, I am ext...
2,600	600_part_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Remember back when the Underground Man said he couldn't become anything? He elaborates: he couldn't even become an insect if he wanted to. Why? He is too conscious. Not only is he cursed with hyper-consciousness, but he's cursed with having to live in St. Petersburg, which is "the most theoretical and intentional town"...	[ "I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect. I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness. For man's...
2,601	600_part_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Now the Underground Man examines how a normal person might react to being slapped in the face. He'd get revenge, maybe by slapping the assailant back. How does he do that? Well, when the normal man wants revenge, his whole being feels nothing but the desire for revenge. It takes him over completely. He becomes like a c...	[ "With people who know how to revenge themselves and to stand up for\nthemselves in general, how is it done? Why, when they are possessed,\nlet us suppose, by the feeling of revenge, then for the time there is\nnothing else but that feeling left in their whole being. Such a\ngentleman simply dashes straight for hi...
2,602	600_part_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man goes back to his technique of filling in our side of this "conversation." He supposes that we might be scoffing at him, asking if he intends to prove there is enjoyment in a toothache, too. Well, now that you mention it...Yes, he does intend as much. There is enjoyment in moaning over a toothache, h...	[ "\"Ha, ha, ha! You will be finding enjoyment in toothache next,\" you\ncry, with a laugh.", "\"Well, even in toothache there is enjoyment,\" I answer. I had\ntoothache for a whole month and I know there is. In that case, of\ncourse, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not\ncandid moans, th...
2,603	600_part_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Glad you asked! Once again, the question is, can a man who is hyper-conscious, who takes pleasure in his own degradation, possibly respect himself? Before answering this question, the Underground Man assures us that he is not asking this out of remorse. In fact, he has never been one to ask for forgiveness at all, not ...	[ "Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of\nhis own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself? I am\nnot saying this now from any mawkish kind of remorse. And, indeed, I\ncould never endure saying, \"Forgive me, Papa, I won't do it again,\" not\nbecause I am incapable of s...
2,604	600_part_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man wishes that his constant state of inaction were simply because of laziness. That sure would make things easier. And at least then, he says, he could respect himself. Also, at least he would have certainty. If someone asked what he was, the answer would be clear: a lazy person! For example: the Under...	[ "Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens, how I should\nhave respected myself, then. I should have respected myself because I\nshould at least have been capable of being lazy; there would at least\nhave been one quality, as it were, positive in me, in which I could\nhave believed myself. Question: ...
2,605	600_part_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man recalls someone once saying that man only does nasty and wicked things because he doesn't know what's good for him. If he were enlightened, he would only do good things, because he would realize that being good was in his own best interest. The theory, then, is that no man would ever act against his...	[ "But these are all golden dreams. Oh, tell me, who was it first\nannounced, who was it first proclaimed, that man only does nasty things\nbecause he does not know his own interests; and that if he were\nenlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man\nwould at once cease to do nasty things, w...
2,606	600_part_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man again provides a retort on behalf of his readers, who might suppose that science makes that whole idea of "choice" into a contradiction. Now we're back to this idea of a big giant formula : if we knew enough about science, we could predict every action, feeling, and event. But, he posits, if such a ...	[ "\"Ha! ha! ha! But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality,\nsay what you like,\" you will interpose with a chuckle. \"Science has\nsucceeded in so far analysing man that we know already that choice and\nwhat is called freedom of will is nothing else than--\"", "Stay, gentlemen, I meant to begin wi...
2,607	600_part_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man starts Chapter Nine by admitting that, actually, he's joking. But then he goes right back to his old argumentative self. This time, he wants to talk about being tormented by profound questions. Here is one such question: most normal people want to reform man to act according to science and good sens...	[ "Gentlemen, I am joking, and I know myself that my jokes are not\nbrilliant, but you know one can take everything as a joke. I am,\nperhaps, jesting against the grain. Gentlemen, I am tormented by\nquestions; answer them for me. You, for instance, want to cure men of\ntheir old habits and reform their will in accor...
2,608	600_part_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man again addresses us, his audience: "You believe in a palace of crystal," he begins, a palace which cannot be destroyed and which is so all-around wonderful that no one could put his tongue out at it. And we start down a slightly convoluted path of reasoning. Let's suppose the Underground Man were cau...	[ "You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed--a\npalace at which one will not be able to put out one's tongue or make a\nlong nose on the sly. And perhaps that is just why I am afraid of this\nedifice, that it is of crystal and can never be destroyed and that one\ncannot put one's tongue out at ...
2,609	600_part_1,_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	So really the thing to do, the Underground Man says, is...nothing. Which just happens to be what he is doing now, by living underground. It's better to be conscious and live with the inertia that consciousness brings. And yet, he bitterly, bitterly envies the normal man. Although, he wouldn't want to be the normal man ...	[ "The long and the short of it is, gentlemen, that it is better to do\nnothing! Better conscious inertia! And so hurrah for underground!\nThough I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my\nbile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now\n(though I shall not cease envying him). N...
2,610	600_part_2,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man launches into this story of his. He was twenty-four when it took place, and even then he was as gloomy and friendless as he is now. Everyone at the office hated him, he says, but those men were contemptible themselves. He goes on to describe why they were contemptible . What's more, they weren't eve...	[ "AT THAT TIME I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy,\nill-regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends\nwith no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and\nmore in my hole. At work in the office I never looked at anyone, and\nwas perfectly well aware that my comp...
2,611	600_part_2,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	So, basically, the Underground Man's life was not fun. Ever. Because interacting with another human was clearly not an option, he took refuge in "the sublime and beautiful." At these moments, he felt that he was a completely different person from the man who borrowed money to buy a beaver collar. At these moments, he w...	[ "But the period of my dissipation would end and I always felt very sick\nafterwards. It was followed by remorse--I tried to drive it away; I\nfelt too sick. By degrees, however, I grew used to that too. I grew\nused to everything, or rather I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring\nit. But I had a means of escape ...
2,612	600_part_2,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the Underground Man gets to Simonov's place, there are two other men there, both guys that he knows from school. They basically pretend to ignore him. He figures they hate him. The men are busy talking about a farewell dinner they're having the next day for an old schoolmate who is going away. The man in question ...	[ "I found two of my old schoolfellows with him. They seemed to be\ndiscussing an important matter. All of them took scarcely any notice\nof my entrance, which was strange, for I had not met them for years.\nEvidently they looked upon me as something on the level of a common\nfly. I had not been treated like that ...
2,613	600_part_2,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the Underground Man gets to the Hotel de Paris, he finds out from the waiter that, actually, the dinner is at six, not five. The Underground Man stands around awkwardly and hears the sound of laughter from the various other diners, which he finds to be repulsive. So repulsive, in fact, that when Simonov, Trudolyub...	[ "I had been certain the day before that I should be the first to arrive. But it was not a question of being the first to arrive. Not only were\nthey not there, but I had difficulty in finding our room. The table\nwas not laid even. What did it mean? After a good many questions I\nelicited from the waiters that the ...
2,614	600_part_2,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As he leaves to pursue his frenemies, the Underground Man concludes that this is real life, and that it is indeed very different from his dreams about the "sphere of art" that we heard about before. Once outside, he gets into a horse-drawn carriage , crumpling with shame over the fact that he just borrowed six more rou...	[ "\"So this is it, this is it at last--contact with real life,\" I muttered\nas I ran headlong downstairs. \"This is very different from the Pope's\nleaving Rome and going to Brazil, very different from the ball on Lake\nComo!\"", "\"You are a scoundrel,\" a thought flashed through my mind, \"if you laugh\nat thi...
2,615	600_part_2,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At around 2am the Underground Man wakes up next to the girl. The events of the preceding day slowly come back to him, and he mulls them over until he sees that the prostitute is awake and looking at him intently. This awkward staring goes on for a while until he asks her name. She answers "Liza" and finally turns her e...	[ "... Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though\noppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it. After an\nunnaturally prolonged wheezing there followed a shrill, nasty, and as\nit were unexpectedly rapid, chime--as though someone were suddenly\njumping forward. It struck two. I w...
2,616	600_part_2,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man launches right back into his "life's a b---h and then you die" speech. He says he's essentially disgusted with Liza's occupation, but if she were something else, he might very well fall in love with her. As such, though, he could never love her, because she's just a slave who has to come when he cal...	[ "\"Oh, hush, Liza! How can you talk about being like a book, when it\nmakes even me, an outsider, feel sick? Though I don't look at it as an\noutsider, for, indeed, it touches me to the heart.... Is it possible,\nis it possible that you do not feel sick at being here yourself? Evidently habit does wonders! God know...
2,617	600_part_2,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Still, that truth isn't entirely clear to him - yet. First he has to get through his bewilderment at his own attitude towards Liza. So let's continue his story. The Underground Man gets home and is shocked that he was so sentimental last night. He worries about what will happen if Liza really does come to visit him. Wh...	[ "It was some time, however, before I consented to recognise that truth.\nWaking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and\nimmediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was\npositively amazed at my last night's SENTIMENTALITY with Liza, at all\nthose \"outcries of horror an...
2,618	600_part_2,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Apollon invites Liza in, so we cut to her standing in front of the Underground Man awkwardly. And, just as he imagined, the Underground Man is ashamed of his ratty dressing down. He tells her to sit down. She does. And suddenly, he feels like, since this is all her fault, she should have to pay for it. In a lecturing t...	[ "\"Into my house come bold and free,\n Its rightful mistress there to be.\"", "I stood before her crushed, crestfallen, revoltingly confused, and I\nbelieve I smiled as I did my utmost to wrap myself in the skirts of my\nragged wadded dressing-gown--exactly as I had imagined the scene not\nlong before in a fi...
2,619	600_part_2,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Fifteen minutes later, the Underground Man is pacing up and down the room. Liza is sitting against the bed crying. He wishes she would go away. The sex, he explains to his reader, was his way of revenge. Now not only does he hate her for being a prostitute, but he hates her personally, because he envied her for a momen...	[ "A quarter of an hour later I was rushing up and down the room in\nfrenzied impatience, from minute to minute I went up to the screen and\npeeped through the crack at Liza. She was sitting on the ground with\nher head leaning against the bed, and must have been crying. But she\ndid not go away, and that irritated...
2,599	600_part_1,_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dostoevsky immediately introduces us into the mind of his forty-year-old Underground Man, who describes himself as a "sick", "spiteful", "most unpleasant man" with a liver disease for which he refuses to seek treatment "out of spite. Throughout the man's speech, he addresses a formal audience he calls "distinguished ge...	[ "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I\nbelieve my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my\ndisease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a\ndoctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and\ndoctors. Besides, I am ext...
2,600	600_part_1,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter we learn that the UM's illness is more than physical: he asserts that he has a psychological disease-he has too much consciousness. He admits that day after day he would rush home to hide in his "corner," only to anguish and "gnaw" at himself, reconsidering the actions he had taken that day. At the same...	[ "I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect. I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness. For man's...
2,601	600_part_1,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The UM now uses an analogy to make his point. He describes the normal, "stupid" person as an enraged bull rushing headlong into a wall at the slightest impulse. He likens himself, one who possesses a hyperconsciousness, to a mouse-the antithesis of a normal man, he says. While the bull acts on its rather simple mental ...	[ "With people who know how to revenge themselves and to stand up for\nthemselves in general, how is it done? Why, when they are possessed,\nlet us suppose, by the feeling of revenge, then for the time there is\nnothing else but that feeling left in their whole being. Such a\ngentleman simply dashes straight for hi...
2,602	600_part_1,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	To advance his previous point that one can find pleasure in suffering, the UM uses the example of a toothache. He explains that though there is absolutely no rational motive for finding enjoyment in one's pain, realizing that one can make such an irrational decision is in and of itself a cause for certain satisfaction	[ "\"Ha, ha, ha! You will be finding enjoyment in toothache next,\" you\ncry, with a laugh.", "\"Well, even in toothache there is enjoyment,\" I answer. I had\ntoothache for a whole month and I know there is. In that case, of\ncourse, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not\ncandid moans, th...
2,603	600_part_1,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Here we delve deeper into the mind of this deeply disturbed individual. The UM, explaining what it was like to grow up, says that he could never find any virtue or justice in his world, and therefore could only use spite or conscious deception to find reasons to act	[ "Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of\nhis own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself? I am\nnot saying this now from any mawkish kind of remorse. And, indeed, I\ncould never endure saying, \"Forgive me, Papa, I won't do it again,\" not\nbecause I am incapable of s...
2,604	600_part_1,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Here, the Underground Man sidetracks himself, explaining how if he were a sluggard then he would truly respect himself. He muses about how his life would be different if only he could call himself a lazy drunk who devoted his life to the "beautiful and sublime. In fact, he mentions and quotes the words "beautiful and s...	[ "Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens, how I should\nhave respected myself, then. I should have respected myself because I\nshould at least have been capable of being lazy; there would at least\nhave been one quality, as it were, positive in me, in which I could\nhave believed myself. Question: ...
2,605	600_part_1,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The UM more clearly focuses his assault on Chernyshevsky's "golden dreams" in this chapter, where he asserts that man is an inherently irrational creature , and therefore does not always act in his own self-interest. Indeed, the Underground Man asks, "And what if it turns out that man's advantage sometimes not only may...	[ "But these are all golden dreams. Oh, tell me, who was it first\nannounced, who was it first proclaimed, that man only does nasty things\nbecause he does not know his own interests; and that if he were\nenlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man\nwould at once cease to do nasty things, w...
2,606	600_part_1,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Next, he confronts the counter-argument that man's "free will" is just an illusion-just a scientific formula of biological chemicals. The UM says that if this were ever the case, man would cease being human altogether and become an organ stop. Later, he even suggests that this liberty of choice, this freedom to be stup...	[ "\"Ha! ha! ha! But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality,\nsay what you like,\" you will interpose with a chuckle. \"Science has\nsucceeded in so far analysing man that we know already that choice and\nwhat is called freedom of will is nothing else than--\"", "Stay, gentlemen, I meant to begin wi...
2,607	600_part_1,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Next, the UM uses the analogy of the road to present his conclusion that man is afraid of completing his goal. Man, he argues, loves the act of building, or constructing the road, but not the final product of the finished road. It then follows that humans fear the law of determinism-that two and two makes four. The UM ...	[ "Gentlemen, I am joking, and I know myself that my jokes are not\nbrilliant, but you know one can take everything as a joke. I am,\nperhaps, jesting against the grain. Gentlemen, I am tormented by\nquestions; answer them for me. You, for instance, want to cure men of\ntheir old habits and reform their will in accor...
2,608	600_part_1,_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, the Underground Man explains his refusal to accept the crystal palace, for the very reason that he wouldn't be able to stick his tongue out at it. He would much rather live in his self-acclaimed underground	[ "You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed--a\npalace at which one will not be able to put out one's tongue or make a\nlong nose on the sly. And perhaps that is just why I am afraid of this\nedifice, that it is of crystal and can never be destroyed and that one\ncannot put one's tongue out at ...
2,609	600_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The UM begins this chapter by proclaiming: "The final result, gentlemen, is that it's better to do nothing. Conscious inertia is better. And so, long live the underground. Yet quickly he admits that he's lying, that he doesn't truly prefer the underground, but "something different, altogether different, something that ...	[ "The long and the short of it is, gentlemen, that it is better to do\nnothing! Better conscious inertia! And so hurrah for underground!\nThough I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my\nbile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now\n(though I shall not cease envying him). N...
2,610	600_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Underground Man flashes back to when he was only twenty-four years old. He explains that even at that early age his life was "gloomy, disordered, and solitary to the point of savagery. Speaking about his work environment, he admits that he hated all of his co-workers, though he probably despised himself even more s...	[ "AT THAT TIME I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy,\nill-regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends\nwith no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and\nmore in my hole. At work in the office I never looked at anyone, and\nwas perfectly well aware that my comp...
2,611	600_part_2,_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dreaming is the only method the UM now finds to escape his life of "debauchery" and enter the world of the "beautiful and sublime. He says that he dreamt for three months straight, and this dreaming was quite satisfying and even intoxicating, he admits. He explains that he would go from considering himself to be a hero...	[ "But the period of my dissipation would end and I always felt very sick\nafterwards. It was followed by remorse--I tried to drive it away; I\nfelt too sick. By degrees, however, I grew used to that too. I grew\nused to everything, or rather I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring\nit. But I had a means of escape ...
2,612	600_part_2,_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Visiting Simonov at his apartment, the UM also encounters two of his other former classmates-Ferfichkin and Trudolyubov. Apparently the men are discussing the party for their friend, Zverkov, for the following evening. The men completely ignore the UM as he enters, contributing to his notion that he is nothing but an "...	[ "I found two of my old schoolfellows with him. They seemed to be\ndiscussing an important matter. All of them took scarcely any notice\nof my entrance, which was strange, for I had not met them for years.\nEvidently they looked upon me as something on the level of a common\nfly. I had not been treated like that ...
2,613	600_part_2,_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Upon arrival, he finds that no one else has come yet. He is shamed by being the first one, knowing he appears overeager. When the others arrive an hour later , the UM has already become greatly offended and ready to argue with his "friends" out of spite. After a few minutes of conversation, the UM wonders why he has ev...	[ "I had been certain the day before that I should be the first to arrive. But it was not a question of being the first to arrive. Not only were\nthey not there, but I had difficulty in finding our room. The table\nwas not laid even. What did it mean? After a good many questions I\nelicited from the waiters that the ...
2,614	600_part_2,_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Entering the establishment, the Underground Man prepares to start another fight, which can only find resolution in a duel. Inside he doesn't rendezvous with his acquaintances, however, but notices a certain woman instead	[ "\"So this is it, this is it at last--contact with real life,\" I muttered\nas I ran headlong downstairs. \"This is very different from the Pope's\nleaving Rome and going to Brazil, very different from the ball on Lake\nComo!\"", "\"You are a scoundrel,\" a thought flashed through my mind, \"if you laugh\nat thi...
2,615	600_part_2,_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Realizing that he's been in a semi-conscious state for some time now, the UM comes to, noticing that the woman, Liza, has been staring at him. They have a rather cold, unsociable conversation, and the UM finds out who she is and where she has come from. It turns out the girl has had a very hard life and has moved to th...	[ "... Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though\noppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it. After an\nunnaturally prolonged wheezing there followed a shrill, nasty, and as\nit were unexpectedly rapid, chime--as though someone were suddenly\njumping forward. It struck two. I w...
2,616	600_part_2,_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Their conversation continues, and the UM remains very serious with her. Indeed the whole tone of the notes has shifted dramatically, becoming much more catastrophic and heartbreaking. He begins detailing what it will be like when she dies, on old, wretched woman not loved by anyone. He tells her, "That'll be the end of...	[ "\"Oh, hush, Liza! How can you talk about being like a book, when it\nmakes even me, an outsider, feel sick? Though I don't look at it as an\noutsider, for, indeed, it touches me to the heart.... Is it possible,\nis it possible that you do not feel sick at being here yourself? Evidently habit does wonders! God know...
2,617	600_part_2,_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Waking the next morning, the UM is surprised at himself for expressing himself to Liza the way he did. He pays Simonov what he had borrowed from him the previous night, and includes in the repayment a letter of apology for his rude behavior. After taking care of this, he lapses back into thoughts of Liza. The UM is gen...	[ "It was some time, however, before I consented to recognise that truth.\nWaking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and\nimmediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was\npositively amazed at my last night's SENTIMENTALITY with Liza, at all\nthose \"outcries of horror an...
2,618	600_part_2,_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Liza appears one evening unexpectedly, the Underground Man is horrified. He explains: "I stood before her, crushed, humiliated, abominably ashamed. This shame he turns into spite, and he humiliates her, telling her that he was laughing at her that night. Yet Liza seems to understand him, meaning she realizes how p...	[ "\"Into my house come bold and free,\n Its rightful mistress there to be.\"", "I stood before her crushed, crestfallen, revoltingly confused, and I\nbelieve I smiled as I did my utmost to wrap myself in the skirts of my\nragged wadded dressing-gown--exactly as I had imagined the scene not\nlong before in a fi...
2,619	600_part_2_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The UM realizes that his idea of love is simply "tyrannizing and demonstrating moral superiority." For this reason he tries to give her a five-ruble note; but she doesn't accept it, making him even more miserable. For the UM realizes that his love has been tainted by his books, by his head. Liza, on the other hand, sh...	[ "A quarter of an hour later I was rushing up and down the room in\nfrenzied impatience, from minute to minute I went up to the screen and\npeeped through the crack at Liza. She was sitting on the ground with\nher head leaning against the bed, and must have been crying. But she\ndid not go away, and that irritated...
2,599	600_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dostoevsky begins with a footnote in which he explains that the narrator is imaginary; but he claims people such as the narrator must exist, for he represents all of those who are forced to live "underground" because they cannot relate to or accept the society as it exists.	[ "I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I\nbelieve my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my\ndisease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a\ndoctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and\ndoctors. Besides, I am ext...
2,600	600_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator believes that he suffers from excessive consciousness, a disease that causes inertia and renders him incapable of either changing or wanting to change himself. He admits it is a disease that has led him into depravity. After struggling with the feeling of shame that accompanies his depravity, he has come t...	[ "I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect. I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness. For man's...
2,601	600_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator believes that he suffers from excessive consciousness, a disease that causes inertia and renders him incapable of either changing or wanting to change himself. He admits it is a disease that has led him into depravity. After struggling with the feeling of shame that accompanies his depravity, he has come t...	[ "With people who know how to revenge themselves and to stand up for\nthemselves in general, how is it done? Why, when they are possessed,\nlet us suppose, by the feeling of revenge, then for the time there is\nnothing else but that feeling left in their whole being. Such a\ngentleman simply dashes straight for hi...
2,602	600_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator explains how people find pleasure in the pain they are suffering. He uses a toothache as an example. A person moans when his tooth hurts, because there is a kind of pleasure in the moaning. When the moaning is heard by another person, it is even more pleasurable, for the moaner is inflicting his suffering ...	[ "\"Ha, ha, ha! You will be finding enjoyment in toothache next,\" you\ncry, with a laugh.", "\"Well, even in toothache there is enjoyment,\" I answer. I had\ntoothache for a whole month and I know there is. In that case, of\ncourse, people are not spiteful in silence, but moan; but they are not\ncandid moans, th...
2,603	600_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator explains how people find pleasure in the pain they are suffering. He uses a toothache as an example. A person moans when his tooth hurts, because there is a kind of pleasure in the moaning. When the moaning is heard by another person, it is even more pleasurable, for the moaner is inflicting his suffering ...	[ "Come, can a man who attempts to find enjoyment in the very feeling of\nhis own degradation possibly have a spark of respect for himself? I am\nnot saying this now from any mawkish kind of remorse. And, indeed, I\ncould never endure saying, \"Forgive me, Papa, I won't do it again,\" not\nbecause I am incapable of s...
2,604	600_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator explains how people find pleasure in the pain they are suffering. He uses a toothache as an example. A person moans when his tooth hurts, because there is a kind of pleasure in the moaning. When the moaning is heard by another person, it is even more pleasurable, for the moaner is inflicting his suffering ...	[ "Oh, if I had done nothing simply from laziness! Heavens, how I should\nhave respected myself, then. I should have respected myself because I\nshould at least have been capable of being lazy; there would at least\nhave been one quality, as it were, positive in me, in which I could\nhave believed myself. Question: ...
2,605	600_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The underground man rejects the notion that an enlightened, educated man will automatically be drawn towards what is good because it is advantageous to him and society. He believes that intelligent people usually move toward difficult, sometimes harmful, situations because they hold self-will dearer than they do virtue...	[ "But these are all golden dreams. Oh, tell me, who was it first\nannounced, who was it first proclaimed, that man only does nasty things\nbecause he does not know his own interests; and that if he were\nenlightened, if his eyes were opened to his real normal interests, man\nwould at once cease to do nasty things, w...
2,606	600_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The underground man rejects the notion that an enlightened, educated man will automatically be drawn towards what is good because it is advantageous to him and society. He believes that intelligent people usually move toward difficult, sometimes harmful, situations because they hold self-will dearer than they do virtue...	[ "\"Ha! ha! ha! But you know there is no such thing as choice in reality,\nsay what you like,\" you will interpose with a chuckle. \"Science has\nsucceeded in so far analysing man that we know already that choice and\nwhat is called freedom of will is nothing else than--\"", "Stay, gentlemen, I meant to begin wi...
2,607	600_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The underground man rejects the notion that an enlightened, educated man will automatically be drawn towards what is good because it is advantageous to him and society. He believes that intelligent people usually move toward difficult, sometimes harmful, situations because they hold self-will dearer than they do virtue...	[ "Gentlemen, I am joking, and I know myself that my jokes are not\nbrilliant, but you know one can take everything as a joke. I am,\nperhaps, jesting against the grain. Gentlemen, I am tormented by\nquestions; answer them for me. You, for instance, want to cure men of\ntheir old habits and reform their will in accor...
2,608	600_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator ponders man's desires and points out how important they are. He feels it would be terrible to live in the Crystal Palace, a glass structure in London, where he would be inhibited from pursuing his desires. He knows he would not be comfortable sticking out his tongue there even if he wanted to, for the whol...	[ "You believe in a palace of crystal that can never be destroyed--a\npalace at which one will not be able to put out one's tongue or make a\nlong nose on the sly. And perhaps that is just why I am afraid of this\nedifice, that it is of crystal and can never be destroyed and that one\ncannot put one's tongue out at ...
2,609	600_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrator ponders man's desires and points out how important they are. He feels it would be terrible to live in the Crystal Palace, a glass structure in London, where he would be inhibited from pursuing his desires. He knows he would not be comfortable sticking out his tongue there even if he wanted to, for the whol...	[ "The long and the short of it is, gentlemen, that it is better to do\nnothing! Better conscious inertia! And so hurrah for underground!\nThough I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my\nbile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now\n(though I shall not cease envying him). N...
2,610	600_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Part II, the narrator gives a flashback to his past, when he was twenty-four years old. Because he felt inferior, he lived a lonely life with no friends. At work, he felt self-conscious and believed his peers looked down on him. He worried about his appearance and began to hate the look of his own face, for he belie...	[ "AT THAT TIME I was only twenty-four. My life was even then gloomy,\nill-regulated, and as solitary as that of a savage. I made friends\nwith no one and positively avoided talking, and buried myself more and\nmore in my hole. At work in the office I never looked at anyone, and\nwas perfectly well aware that my comp...
2,611	600_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Part II, the narrator gives a flashback to his past, when he was twenty-four years old. Because he felt inferior, he lived a lonely life with no friends. At work, he felt self-conscious and believed his peers looked down on him. He worried about his appearance and began to hate the look of his own face, for he belie...	[ "But the period of my dissipation would end and I always felt very sick\nafterwards. It was followed by remorse--I tried to drive it away; I\nfelt too sick. By degrees, however, I grew used to that too. I grew\nused to everything, or rather I voluntarily resigned myself to enduring\nit. But I had a means of escape ...
2,612	600_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the young narrator goes to visit Simonov, he finds two other former classmates, Trudolyubov and Ferfichkin, at his house. The three of them ignore the arrival of the underground man and continue to plan a farewell dinner for Zverkov, an officer and old schoolmate. Wanting to feel a part of things, the young narrat...	[ "I found two of my old schoolfellows with him. They seemed to be\ndiscussing an important matter. All of them took scarcely any notice\nof my entrance, which was strange, for I had not met them for years.\nEvidently they looked upon me as something on the level of a common\nfly. I had not been treated like that ...
2,613	600_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the young narrator goes to visit Simonov, he finds two other former classmates, Trudolyubov and Ferfichkin, at his house. The three of them ignore the arrival of the underground man and continue to plan a farewell dinner for Zverkov, an officer and old schoolmate. Wanting to feel a part of things, the young narrat...	[ "I had been certain the day before that I should be the first to arrive. But it was not a question of being the first to arrive. Not only were\nthey not there, but I had difficulty in finding our room. The table\nwas not laid even. What did it mean? After a good many questions I\nelicited from the waiters that the ...
2,614	600_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The underground man takes a coach in an effort to catch up with the three men who are headed to the whorehouse. On the way he grows ashamed and angry about his treatment at dinner and decides that he will slap Zverkov as soon as he arrives. He pictures his enemy sitting with Olympia, one of the prostitutes, and imagine...	[ "\"So this is it, this is it at last--contact with real life,\" I muttered\nas I ran headlong downstairs. \"This is very different from the Pope's\nleaving Rome and going to Brazil, very different from the ball on Lake\nComo!\"", "\"You are a scoundrel,\" a thought flashed through my mind, \"if you laugh\nat thi...
2,615	600_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The underground man takes a coach in an effort to catch up with the three men who are headed to the whorehouse. On the way he grows ashamed and angry about his treatment at dinner and decides that he will slap Zverkov as soon as he arrives. He pictures his enemy sitting with Olympia, one of the prostitutes, and imagine...	[ "... Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though\noppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it. After an\nunnaturally prolonged wheezing there followed a shrill, nasty, and as\nit were unexpectedly rapid, chime--as though someone were suddenly\njumping forward. It struck two. I w...
2,616	600_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The young narrator continues to paint for Liza the horrible plight of prostitutes and warns her that if she does not leave the profession, she will age quickly, and her health will deteriorate. He adds that she is selling her soul, as well as her body. He further explains that his concern for her stems from genuine emo...	[ "\"Oh, hush, Liza! How can you talk about being like a book, when it\nmakes even me, an outsider, feel sick? Though I don't look at it as an\noutsider, for, indeed, it touches me to the heart.... Is it possible,\nis it possible that you do not feel sick at being here yourself? Evidently habit does wonders! God know...
2,617	600_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The young narrator continues to paint for Liza the horrible plight of prostitutes and warns her that if she does not leave the profession, she will age quickly, and her health will deteriorate. He adds that she is selling her soul, as well as her body. He further explains that his concern for her stems from genuine emo...	[ "It was some time, however, before I consented to recognise that truth.\nWaking up in the morning after some hours of heavy, leaden sleep, and\nimmediately realising all that had happened on the previous day, I was\npositively amazed at my last night's SENTIMENTALITY with Liza, at all\nthose \"outcries of horror an...
2,618	600_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the young narrator appears before Liza, he feels angry and ashamed. He hates that she sees him in his old clothing and his poverty. He does, however, ask her to come in and sit down. He also sends Apollon out to get some tea and some food to eat. After the servant has left, the young narrator excuses himself for a...	[ "\"Into my house come bold and free,\n Its rightful mistress there to be.\"", "I stood before her crushed, crestfallen, revoltingly confused, and I\nbelieve I smiled as I did my utmost to wrap myself in the skirts of my\nragged wadded dressing-gown--exactly as I had imagined the scene not\nlong before in a fi...
2,619	600_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When the young narrator appears before Liza, he feels angry and ashamed. He hates that she sees him in his old clothing and his poverty. He does, however, ask her to come in and sit down. He also sends Apollon out to get some tea and some food to eat. After the servant has left, the young narrator excuses himself for a...	[ "A quarter of an hour later I was rushing up and down the room in\nfrenzied impatience, from minute to minute I went up to the screen and\npeeped through the crack at Liza. She was sitting on the ground with\nher head leaning against the bed, and must have been crying. But she\ndid not go away, and that irritated...
2,620	34901_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mill begins by explaining that his purpose in this essay is to discuss the maximum power that society can exercise over an individual and study the struggle between Liberty and Authority. In earlier times, liberty was utilized as protection against political tyranny because rulers were endowed with the power to both su...	[ "The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so\nunfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical\nNecessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the\npower which can be legitimately exercised by society over the\nindividual. A question seldom stated, and ha...
2,621	34901_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the Liberty of Thought and Discussion Mill asserts that the government shouldn't act at the beckon of the people because the public shouldn't have the power of coercion over their elected governing body. The government is much more dangerous when dependent on unreliable public opinion. Indeed, public opinion is the ...	[ "The time, it is to be hoped, is gone by, when any defence would be\nnecessary of the \"liberty of the press\" as one of the securities against\ncorrupt or tyrannical government. No argument, we may suppose, can now\nbe needed, against permitting a legislature or an executive, not\nidentified in interest with the p...
2,622	34901_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being Mill begins this chapter with placing limitations on the personal freedom that he has so far proposed. He professes his belief in autonomy except when a person proves to be placing others in danger with their actions; he asserts that "no one pretends that actions s...	[ "Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should\nbe free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve;\nand such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that\nto the moral nature of man, unless this liberty is either conceded, or\nasserted in spite of p...
2,623	34901_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual Mill contends that there needs to be a clear distinction between where individual liberty takes precedence and where society has the right to intervene. He refutes the Lockean argument that society is based upon a mutual contract but he concurs that once ent...	[ "What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual\nover himself? Where does the authority of society begin? How much of\nhuman life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society?", "Each will receive its proper share, if each has that which more\nparticularly concerns it. To i...
2,624	34901_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In this chapter, Mill enumerates how all of his theories and ideas for humankind can and should be applied in real-life scenarios and explains when liberty has to be sacrificed. He recaps his two main maxims: one, that the individual should not be punished for their actions if they are only affecting themselves and two...	[ "The principles asserted in these pages must be more generally admitted\nas the basis for discussion of details, before a consistent application\nof them to all the various departments of government and morals can be\nattempted with any prospect of advantage. The few observations I propose\nto make on questions of ...
2,625	11228_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel opens on a "hot and sultry" night in the sickroom of Mrs. Olivia Carteret. Dr. Price, who is looking over Mrs. Carteret, gives her hand to Major Carteret, her husband, and tells him to look after her while he goes down to the library for a rest. Major Carteret is as much oppressed by his memories as by the he...	[ "\"Stay here beside her, major. I shall not he needed for an hour yet.\nMeanwhile I'll go downstairs and snatch a bit of sleep, or talk to old\nJane.\"", "The night was hot and sultry. Though the windows of the chamber were\nwide open, and the muslin curtains looped back, not a breath of air was\nstirring. Only t...
2,626	11228_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The baby is named Theodore Felix, and the family decides to call him "Dodie. Six weeks after the birth, the family gathers for the christening. After the service, they all attend a christening party of the Carteret's house. Only a few people attend since Mrs. Carteret's health is still weak: the rector of St. Andrew's,...	[ "They named the Carteret baby Theodore Felix. Theodore was a family name,\nand had been borne by the eldest son for several generations, the major\nhimself being a second son. Having thus given the child two beautiful\nnames, replete with religious and sentimental significance, they called\nhim--\"Dodie.\"", "The...
2,627	11228_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The narrative goes back to a few days after the baby's birth. Major Carteret returns to work where the office throws a big celebration for him. All of the employees of the office come to congratulate him and smoke a cigar. Jerry, Mammy Jane's grandson who works at the paper, comes as well, and he is pleased with the Ma...	[ "To go back a little, for several days after his child's birth Major\nCarteret's chief interest in life had been confined to the four walls of\nthe chamber where his pale wife lay upon her bed of pain, and those of\nthe adjoining room where an old black woman crooned lovingly over a\nlittle white infant. A new elem...
2,628	11228_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mammy Jane is ebullient over Dodie Carterets health and growth in six months. According to Mammy Jane, he "weigh 'bout twenty-fo' poun's. Her praise of the child greatly encourages Mrs. Carteret. However, Mammy Jane is being forced to leave the household because of her inflamed arthritis. The Carteret's have hired a ne...	[ "The young heir of the Carterets had thriven apace, and at six months old\nwas, according to Mammy Jane, whose experience qualified her to speak\nwith authority, the largest, finest, smartest, and altogether most\nremarkable baby that had ever lived in Wellington. Mammy Jane had\nrecently suffered from an attack of...
2,629	11228_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr. Burns takes his place in his train car in Philadelphia and begins to read his newspaper on the journey south to Wellington. A man approaches him and begins to speak. Dr. Burns recognizes his as Dr. Miller, a former student who started a medical school and hospital in Wellington. The narrator notes that an American ...	[ "As the south-bound train was leaving the station at Philadelphia, a\ngentleman took his seat in the single sleeping-car attached to the\ntrain, and proceeded to make himself comfortable. He hung up his hat and\nopened his newspaper, in which he remained absorbed for a quarter of an\nhour. When the train had left t...
2,630	11228_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The train pulls into the station and Dr. Burns meets Dr. Price on the platform. Burns informs Price that he has invited Miller to assist in the surgery, and Price tells them to be at the Carteret house at eight in the evening. Dr. Price and Dr. Burns leave the station and both are complimentary of Dr. Miller. Miller go...	[ "As the train drew up at the station platform, Dr. Price came forward\nfrom the white waiting-room, and stood expectantly by the door of the\nwhite coach. Miller, having left his car, came down the platform in time\nto intercept Burns as he left the train, and to introduce him to Dr.\nPrice.", "\"My carriage is i...
2,631	11228_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr. Price worries that Dr. Burns does not understand the Southern customs when it comes to race. He talks to Burns about Carteret, and about why he will not allow an African American doctor into his house, but Burns tells him that he misjudges his own people. At the Carteret house, the doctors all gather but Miller has...	[ "Dr. Price was not entirely at ease in his mind as the two doctors drove\nrapidly from the hotel to Major Carteret's. Himself a liberal man, from\nhis point of view, he saw no reason why a colored doctor might not\noperate upon a white male child,--there are fine distinctions in the\napplication of the color line,-...
2,632	11228_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A day after Dodie's narrow escape for surgery, Major Carteret, General Belmont, and Captain McBane meet in the Chronicle's office. Their campaign for white supremacy is not going well and they decide they need to find a new strategy to attack the rise of African Americans in North Carolina. Negro citizenship was a grot...	[ "The campaign for white supremacy was dragging. Carteret had set out, in\nthe columns of the Morning Chronicle, all the reasons why this movement,\ninaugurated by the three men who had met, six months before, at the\noffice of the Chronicle, should be supported by the white public. Negro\ncitizenship was a grotesqu...
2,633	11228_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The town's black newspaper contains an editorial on lynching. It argues that lynchings are an attempt by the white ruling classes to maintain an unjust rule over the African American race. It also argues that neither religion, nor nature, nor state law should forbid interracial marriage. McBane and Carteret are outrage...	[ "Carteret fished from the depths of the waste-basket and handed to the\ngeneral an eighteen by twenty-four sheet, poorly printed on cheap paper,\nwith a \"patent\" inside, a number of advertisements of proprietary\nmedicines, quack doctors, and fortune-tellers, and two or three columns\nof editorial and local news....
2,634	11228_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A few days later, Tom Delamere comes to the Chronicle's office to place an ad for timber. While there, Major Carteret gives Tom a kind lecture on the responsibilities of members of the aristocratic families. This lecture angers Tom greatly and he suspects that Ellis told the Major of his card playing and drinking at th...	[ "Carteret did not forget what General Belmont had said in regard to Tom.\nThe major himself had been young, not so very long ago, and was inclined\ntoward indulgence for the foibles of youth. A young gentleman should\nhave a certain knowledge of life,--but there were limits. Clara's future\nhappiness must not be im...
2,635	11228_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After her rebuff of Ellis, Clara goes upstairs and begins joyfully dancing with little Dodie. Mammy Jane sternly warns her to be careful with the child. Mammy Jane is still very worried about the mole behind the child's ear and the bad luck that such a mark portends. She attributes her good luck charms and her prayers ...	[ "When Ellis, after this rebuff, had disconsolately taken his leave,\nClara, much elated at the righteous punishment she had inflicted upon\nthe slanderer, ran upstairs to the nursery, and, snatching Dodie from\nMammy Jane's arms, began dancing gayly with him round the room.", "\"Look a-hyuh, honey,\" said Mammy J...
2,636	11228_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One morning Dr. Miller receives a patient with a broken arm. The man is named Josh Green and he works on the docks. Dr. Miller recognizes him as the man he saw steal a ride on the passenger car on the train from Philadelphia. Dr. Miller asks Josh how he broke his arm. Josh replies that he got into a fight with a South ...	[ "One morning shortly after the opening of the hospital, while Dr. Miller\nwas making his early rounds, a new patient walked in with a smile on his\nface and a broken arm hanging limply by his side. Miller recognized in\nhim a black giant by the name of Josh Green, who for many years had\nworked on the docks for Mil...
2,637	11228_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A group of Northern men and women come to Wellington and stay at the St. James Hotel. The men are there in order to look into investing in a cotton mill; the women came to study the social condition of the South, especially "the negro problem. They are escorted throughout the town by the gentlemen and ladies of Welling...	[ "Old Mr. Delamere's servant, Sandy Campbell, was in deep trouble.", "A party of Northern visitors had been staying for several days at the\nSt. James Hotel. The gentlemen of the party were concerned in a\nprojected cotton mill, while the ladies were much interested in the\nstudy of social conditions, and especial...
2,638	11228_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Carteret takes her carriage out one day to visit old Mrs. Ochiltree. Mrs. Ochiltree has been in poor health as of late and does not leave the house much. Olivia had attempted to persuade her to move into their estate, but Mrs. Ochiltree maintained her fierce independence and declined the offer. Though she lives in...	[ "When Mrs. Carteret had fully recovered from the shock attendant upon the\naccident at the window, where little Dodie had so narrowly escaped death\nor serious injury, she ordered her carriage one afternoon and directed\nthe coachman to drive her to Mrs. Ochiltree's.", "Mrs. Carteret had discharged her young nurs...
2,639	11228_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Carteret is troubled by what she heard from her Aunt. When they return from their carriage ride, she goes into the house and sits with her for a while. She tells her, "I want to know what you meant by what you said about my father and Julia, and this - this child of hers. Olivia wants to know why she should thank ...	[ "As a stone dropped into a pool of water sets in motion a series of\nconcentric circles which disturb the whole mass in varying degree, so\nMrs. Ochiltree's enigmatical remark had started in her niece's mind a\ndisturbing train of thought. Had her words, Mrs. Carteret asked herself,\nany serious meaning, or were th...
2,640	11228_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One afternoon, Clara, Major Carteret, Mrs. Carteret, and Ellis all take a trip to the seashore for dinner at a hotel with Tom Delamere. Major Carteret has a fondness for Ellis because of his sharp wit and Mrs. Carteret senses his fondness for Clara, but chooses not to interfere with her love life. On the road, they pas...	[ "ELLIS TAKES A TRICK", "Late one afternoon a handsome trap, drawn by two spirited bays, drove up\nto Carteret's gate. Three places were taken by Mrs. Carteret, Clara, and\nthe major, leaving the fourth seat vacant.", "\"I've asked Ellis to drive out with us,\" said the major, as he took the\nlines from the colo...
2,641	11228_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After dropping Ellis off at his apartment, Tom Delamere makes his way to the St. James Hotel for some cards and drink before he has to return home. Upon arriving at the hotel, Tom meets Captain McBane and proposes a game of poker in his room. McBane has been waiting for the opportunity to take advantage of Delamere. He...	[ "THE SOCIAL ASPIRATIONS OF CAPTAIN McBANE", "It was only eleven o'clock, and Delamere, not being at all sleepy, and\nfeeling somewhat out of sorts as the combined results of his afternoon's\ndebauch and the snubbing he had received at Clara's hands, directed the\nmajor's coachman, who had taken charge of the trap...

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