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3,002 | 13434_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior sneaks into Sarah's yard, waiting for a signal before climbing into her room through the window. He knows he should feel free after being released from duty, but he finds this freedom to be "hollow". Trying to remain quiet so as not to alert the landlady and the other tenants, Billy and Sarah whisper nervously. T... | [
"THE TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN SOCIAL WORKERS, CLAPTON",
"Colonel Lambert, the lady-Officer in charge of this Institution,\ninformed me that it can accommodate sixty young women. At the time of\nmy visit forty-seven pupils were being prepared for service in the\nWomen's Department of what is called 'Salvation ... |
3,003 | 13434_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. Rivers is completing his last evening rounds at Craiglockhart before leaving for his new position in London. Willard, the soldier who was paralyzed below the waist, has begun walking again, though he credits his recovery to a surgical intervention by the psychologist instead of admitting that his condition was ment... | [
"THE WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME, HACKNEY",
"This Home is one of much the same class as that which I have just\ndescribed. It has accommodation for forty-eight girls, of whom over\n1,000 have passed through the Institution, where they are generally\nkept for a period of six months. Most of the young women in the Home... |
3,004 | 13434_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After lunch, Dr. Yealland prepares to treat Callan, seemingly enthusiastic about the task. Rivers follows Yealland into a room that is pitch-black except for a small light illuminating a battery powering the electroshock machine. In the center of the room sits what looks like a dentist's chair with restraining straps. ... | [
"THE INEBRIATES' HOME SPRINGFIELD LODGE, DENMARK HILL.",
"This house, which has a fine garden attached, was a gentleman's\nresidence purchased by the Salvation Army, to serve as an Inebriates'\nHome for the better class of patients. With the exception of a few who\ngive their services in connexion with the work o... |
3,005 | 13434_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That night, Dr. Rivers is haunted by images of the "treatment" he witnessed, describing his memories of the incident as "hallucinatory". He is distracted and unable to work on his upcoming paper, so he leaves his room to walk around a darkened London. Even then, the images from the afternoon will not leave his thoughts... | [
"THE WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME SOUTHWOOD, SYDENHAM HILL",
"This is another of the Salvation Army Homes for Women. When I visited\nSouthwood, which is an extremely good house, having been a gentleman's\nresidence, with a garden and commanding a beautiful view, there were\nabout forty inmates, some of whom were perso... |
3,006 | 13434_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry Head assures Dr. Rivers that he is nothing like Dr. Yealland. He adds that Sassoon's integrity would have prevented him from staying at Craiglockhart once his protest failed, regardless of the psychologist's actions. Dr. Rivers expresses his worry that Sassoon is returning to war in order to die, citing his lack ... | [
"THE WOMEN'S SHELTER, WHITECHAPEL",
"This is a place where women, most of them old, so far as my\nobservation went, are taken in to sleep at a charge of 3_d._ a night.\nIt used to be 2_d_. until the London County Council made the provision\nof sheets, etc., compulsory, when the Army was obliged to raise the\npaym... |
2,984 | 13434_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, a psychiatrist at a mental hospital in Craiglockhart, Scotland, silently reads a letter written by Siegfried Sassoon in July 1917. Sassoon's declaration, a "willful defiance of military authority," clearly and logically states his decision to stop fighting as a soldier in World War I. Sassoon belie... | [
"INTRODUCTORY",
"WHAT IS THE SALVATION ARMY?",
"If this question were put to the ordinary person of fashion or\nleisure, how would it be answered?",
"In many cases thus: 'The Salvation Army is a body of people dressed up\nin a semi-military uniform, or those of them who are women, in\nunbecoming poke bonnets,... |
2,985 | 13434_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that Sassoon has arrived at the hospital, he meets with Rivers to talk over tea. Having tea gives Rivers a chance to evaluate the mental state of his patient. The two men have a pleasant conversation. Sassoon tells Rivers that the medical board has been rigged; the decision to send him to a mental hospital was made... | [
"MEN'S SOCIAL WORK, LONDON",
"THE MIDDLESEX STREET SHELTER",
"The first of the London Institutions of the Salvation Army which I\nvisited was that known as the Middlesex Street Shelter and Working\nMen's Home, which is at present under the supervision of Commissioner\nSturgess. This building consists of six flo... |
2,986 | 13434_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Graves arrives at Craiglockhart. Sassoon warmly welcomes him and sends him to speak to Rivers. Graves tells Rivers some background about Sassoon and how he got Sassoon to agree to enter the war hospital. While Graves was recovering from a war wound in a hospital on the Island of Wight, he received Sassoon's protest of ... | [
"THE SPA ROAD ELEVATOR",
"BERMONDSEY",
"The next Institution that I inspected was that of a paper-sorting\nworks at Spa Road, Bermondsey, where all sorts of waste paper are\ndealt with in enormous quantities. Of this stuff some is given and\nsome is bought. Upon delivery it goes to the sorters, who separate it\... |
2,987 | 13434_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers meets with Anderson, a former surgeon in the war who is now a patient at Craiglockhart. Anderson tells Rivers about one of his dreams, in which his father-in-law waved a snake at him and he was tied down with corsets. He offers that this dream might mean that he considers the hospital an emasculating experience.... | [
"THE GREAT PETER STREET SHELTER",
"WESTMINSTER",
"This fine building is the most up-to-date Men's Shelter that the\nSalvation Army possesses in London. It was once the billiard works of\nMessrs. Burroughes and Watts, and is situated in Westminster, quite\nnear to the Houses of Parliament. I visited it about eig... |
2,988 | 13434_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers is introduced to Prior, a new patient in the hospital who refuses to speak. Prior writes on a pad, in block letters only, saying that he does not remember what happened to him and that there is nothing physically wrong with him. He is hostile to Rivers. Sassoon says goodbye to Graves and leaves the hospital for ... | [
"THE FREE BREAKFAST SERVICE",
"BLACKFRIARS SHELTER",
"On a Sunday in June I attended the Free Breakfast service at the\nBlackfriars Shelter. The lease of this building was acquired by the\nSalvation Army from a Temperance Company. Behind it lay contractors'\nstables, which were also bought; after which the prem... |
2,989 | 13434_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Rivers speaks with Prior, who has gotten his voice back in the night. He says that his voice comes and goes, but he does not know why. Prior is a difficult patient; he does not want to talk about his dreams or his experiences because he sees no reason to churn up memories. When Rivers gets up to leave... | [
"THE EX-CRIMINALS",
"On the afternoon of the Sunday on which I visited the Blackfriars\nShelter, I attended another service, conducted by Commissioner\nSturgess, at Quaker Street.",
"Here the room was filled by about 150 men, all of whom had been\nrescued, and were then working in the various Shelters or elsewh... |
2,990 | 13434_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sassoon wakes up during the night to the sound of screams and running footsteps. Screaming patients are very common at Craiglockhart, and he is thankful that his own roommate does not scream. Nevertheless, Sassoon fears Craiglockhart more than the front; its patients have stammers, stumbling walks, and a look of being ... | [
"THE MEN'S WORKSHOP HANBURY STREET, WHITECHAPEL",
"This Salvation Army carpentering and joinery shop has been in\nexistence for about fifteen years, but it does not even now pay its\nway. It was started by the Army in order to assist fallen mechanics by\ngiving them temporary work until they could find other situ... |
2,991 | 13434_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers is in a session with Prior. Prior tells the doctor in detail what it is like to attack from a trench. He talks about climbing up and walking slowly, in broad daylight, right toward the machine guns. He is emotionally detached from the story he is telling, describing it as both "ridiculous" and "sexy. Prior assum... | [
"STURGE HOUSE, BOW ROAD",
"This branch of the Men's Social Work of the Salvation Army is a home\nfor poor and destitute boys. The house, which once belonged to the\nlate Dr. Barnardo, has been recently hired on a short lease. One of\nthe features of the Army work is the reclamation of lads, of whom\nabout 2,400 h... |
2,992 | 13434_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior has been confined for two weeks to the hospital as a punishment for being out too late and for speaking to the matron disrespectfully. In his session with Rivers, he complains about the severity of the punishment. They discuss the possible reasons why officers do not suffer from mutism nearly as often as private ... | [
"THE CENTRAL LABOUR BUREAU",
"This Bureau is established in the Social Headquarters at Whitechapel,\na large building acquired as long ago as 1878. Here is to be seen the\nroom in which General Booth used to hold some of his first prayer\nmeetings, and a little chamber where he took counsel with those\nOfficers w... |
2,993 | 13434_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sarah, Lizzie, and the other munitions workers are talking on their tea break. Sarah mentions how she was disappointed that Prior never came on Sunday to pick her up as she expected him to. Lizzie answers that she is dreading the time her husband will have to be on leave this weekend. She says, ironically, that on Augu... | [
"THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT",
"This is a curious and interesting branch of the work of the Salvation\nArmy. About two thousand times a year it receives letters or personal\napplications, asking it to find some missing relative or friend of the\nwriter or applicant. In reply, a form is posted or gi... |
2,994 | 13434_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Owen enters Sassoon's room to talk. They make conversation about Rivers. Sassoon is frustrated that Rivers makes him imagine a future after a war. He feels that Rivers knows how to get to him by making him feel guilty about sitting in a hospital while his friends are out on the front dying. Sassoon admits that Rivers i... | [
"THE EMIGRATION DEPARTMENT",
"Some years ago I was present one night in the Board-room at Euston\nStation and addressed a shipload of emigrants who were departing to\nCanada under the auspices of the Salvation Army. I forget their exact\nnumber, but I think it was not less than 500. What I do not forget,\nhowever... |
2,995 | 13434_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior goes to Sarah's door to see if she will come out with him that weekend. She is angry with him for standing her up last week, but when he tells her the truth about how the people at Craiglockhart would not let him out, she forgives him and agrees to go out with him. Prior notices the yellow tinge to Sarah's skin f... | [
"THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL WORK IN LONDON",
"At the commencement of my investigation of this branch of the\nSalvation Army activities in England, I discussed its general aspects\nwith Mrs. Bramwell Booth, who has it in her charge. She pointed out to\nme that this Women's Social Work is a much larger business than it was... |
2,996 | 13434_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Burns is brought before the medical board, and although Rivers has assured Burns that he has recommended an unconditional discharge, Burns is extremely anxious. During the interview, Rivers helps a trapped insect find its way to the window. Prior is in the sick bay again, after passing out on the train ride home with S... | [
"THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL WORK, LOWER CLAPTON ROAD",
"The Women's Social Headquarters of the Salvation Army in England is\nsituated at Clapton. It is a property of nearly three acres, on which\nstand four houses that will be rebuilt whenever funds are forthcoming\nfor the erection of the Maternity H... |
2,997 | 13434_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers is at home, and he makes a trip with his family to church. He stares at the windows, which depict Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac and Jesus dying on the cross. The contract, Rivers reasons, is that if a man obeys his elders, even to the point of sacrificing his life, he will someday receive the same obedience ... | [
"HILLSBOROUGH HOUSE INEBRIATES' HOME",
"Under the guidance of Commissioner Cox I inspected a number of the\nLondon Women's Institutions of the Army, first visiting the\nHillsborough House Inebriates' Home. This Home, a beautifully clean\nand well-kept place, has accommodation for thirty patients,\ntwenty-nine bed... |
2,998 | 13434_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers travels to Burns's seaside house in Suffolk to spend a few days there. He thinks Burns sent for him so that he can meet with Mr. and Mrs. Burns and talk about the future of their son. However, when Rivers arrives he is surprised to find that Burns's parents are not there, nor are they expected to come. Burns is ... | [
"THE MATERNITY NURSING HOME LORNE HOUSE, STOKE NEWINGTON",
"Her Royal Highness Princes Louise, the Duchess of Argyll, defrayed the\ncost of the purchase of the leasehold of this charming Home. The\nlady-Officer in charge informed me that the object of the\nestablishment is to take in women who have or are about t... |
2,999 | 13434_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers returns to Craiglockhart and tells Bryce of his decision to take the job in London. He sits down to work, but for once he does not feel burdened by it. Although he looks forward to spending time with other anthropologists in London, he realizes the work he has done in Craiglockhart has been important to him; it ... | [
"THE MATERNITY RECEIVING HOME BRENT HOUSE, HACKNEY",
"This Home serves a somewhat similar purpose as that at Lorne House,\nbut the young women taken in here while awaiting their confinement are\nnot, as a rule, of so high a class.",
"In the garden at the back of the house about forty girls were seated\nin a kin... |
3,000 | 13434_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sarah meets with her mother, Ada, over shopping and a meal at a cafe. Ada gradually gets Sarah to tell her the whole story about her relationship with Billy Prior. Ada scolds her daughter for having sex so soon. She warns her that condoms are not reliable and that if she gets pregnant, she is in big trouble. Ada does n... | [
"THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL IVY HOUSE, HACKNEY",
"This Hospital is one for the accommodation of young mothers on the\noccasion of the birth of their illegitimate children. It is a humble\nbuilding, containing twenty-five beds, although I think a few more can\nbe arranged. That it serves its purpose well, until the la... |
3,001 | 13434_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior stands in front of the Board who decides whether or not he is fit for duty. He is conflicted between wanting to go and prove himself a man and wanting to save his own life. When the Board asks him whether he feels he is physically fit for service, he does not respond; he has no idea what to say. Outside the room,... | [
"'THE NEST', CLAPTON",
"When I began to write this book, I determined to set down all things\nexactly as I saw or heard them. But, although somewhat hardened in\nsuch matters by long experience of a very ugly world, I find that\nthere are limits to what can be told of such a place as 'The Nest' in\npages which ar... |
3,002 | 13434_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Prior waits outside in the cold and the dark for a sign from Sarah's window. When he sees it, he climbs up the side of the wall and makes his way into her room. They cannot make too much noise because her landlady does not allow her to have men in her room. He looks at a photograph on her dresser and wonders about her ... | [
"THE TRAINING INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN SOCIAL WORKERS, CLAPTON",
"Colonel Lambert, the lady-Officer in charge of this Institution,\ninformed me that it can accommodate sixty young women. At the time of\nmy visit forty-seven pupils were being prepared for service in the\nWomen's Department of what is called 'Salvation ... |
3,003 | 13434_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers goes on his last round to say goodbye to his patients before he leaves for his new job in the morning. He is leaving in a blaze of glory, as Willard is finally walking again and both patient and staff credit Rivers with achieving a medical miracle. Rivers goes to say goodbye to Sassoon, who has spent the day wit... | [
"THE WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME, HACKNEY",
"This Home is one of much the same class as that which I have just\ndescribed. It has accommodation for forty-eight girls, of whom over\n1,000 have passed through the Institution, where they are generally\nkept for a period of six months. Most of the young women in the Home... |
3,004 | 13434_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers sits in a corner, watching as Yealland brings Callan--a soldier who has lived through almost every major battle in the war--in to begin his treatment. Except for Rivers, the two men are entirely alone in the room. Yealland closes all the blinds so it is completely dark, aside from the glow of the battery and the... | [
"THE INEBRIATES' HOME SPRINGFIELD LODGE, DENMARK HILL.",
"This house, which has a fine garden attached, was a gentleman's\nresidence purchased by the Salvation Army, to serve as an Inebriates'\nHome for the better class of patients. With the exception of a few who\ngive their services in connexion with the work o... |
3,005 | 13434_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers returns home that night, but finds himself unable to work or sleep. He is haunted by the images of Yealland and Callan, and the awful memories of the scenes of electro-shock therapy. He dreams of himself holding an electrode over a helpless patient's mouth, but the electrode turns into a horse's bit, and though ... | [
"THE WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL HOME SOUTHWOOD, SYDENHAM HILL",
"This is another of the Salvation Army Homes for Women. When I visited\nSouthwood, which is an extremely good house, having been a gentleman's\nresidence, with a garden and commanding a beautiful view, there were\nabout forty inmates, some of whom were perso... |
3,006 | 13434_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rivers goes to consult with Head about his feelings of guilt. Head is surprised, and he reassures Rivers that there is no one person who could be more different from Yealland. Head tells Rivers that no matter how much influence he thinks he has, Sassoon has a mind of his own and it was Sassoon's personal decision to go... | [
"THE WOMEN'S SHELTER, WHITECHAPEL",
"This is a place where women, most of them old, so far as my\nobservation went, are taken in to sleep at a charge of 3_d._ a night.\nIt used to be 2_d_. until the London County Council made the provision\nof sheets, etc., compulsory, when the Army was obliged to raise the\npaym... |
3,007 | 6626_chapters_1-5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel begins with a detailed description of the Passage du Pont-Neuf, a dingy, grimy Paris street populated by small shopkeepers. In the midst of this ill-lit thoroughfare, one can find a shop bearing two signs: the first reading "Haberdashery" in black letters, and the second reading "Therese Raquin" in red. The s... | [
"At the end of the Rue Guenegaud, coming from the quays, you find the\nArcade of the Pont Neuf, a sort of narrow, dark corridor running from\nthe Rue Mazarine to the Rue de Seine. This arcade, at the most, is\nthirty paces long by two in breadth. It is paved with worn, loose,\nyellowish tiles which are never free f... |
3,008 | 6626_chapters_6-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Laurent visits the Raquins' apartment almost every evening, and not only because he must complete Camille' portrait. He is delighted by the good, free food and the comfortable atmosphere. And Therese is clearly attracted to the new guest; as Laurent works, she watches attentively. Laurent considers whether or not to ta... | [
"Henceforth, Laurent called almost every evening on the Raquins. He lived\nin the Rue Saint-Victor, opposite the Port aux Vins, where he rented a\nsmall furnished room at 18 francs a month. This attic, pierced at the\ntop by a lift-up window, measured barely nine square yards, and Laurent\nwas in the habit of going... |
3,009 | 6626_chapters_12-17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Instead of going directly to Mme Raquin with the disturbing news, Laurent decides to seek out Old Michaud and enlist his aid in dealing with Camille's mother. The old police commissioner is temporarily distraught, and Suzanne and Olivier are also deeply upset. Yet Old Michaud decides to go and deal with Mme Raquin, mus... | [
"Laurent, in the dark corner of the omnibus that took him back to Paris,\ncontinued perfecting his plan. He was almost certain of impunity, and\nhe felt heavy, anxious joy, the joy of having got over the crime. On\nreaching the gate at Clichy, he hailed a cab, and drove to the residence\nof old Michaud in the Rue d... |
3,010 | 6626_chapters_18-21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Therese is reeling from the same nightmare - the horrifying ghost of Camille - that has begun to plague Laurent. Desperate for solace and peace, and convinced that Laurent's presence will protect her against Camille's phantom, she decides to set the marriage in rapid motion. However, the lovers have somewhat different ... | [
"Therese also had been visited by the spectre of Camille, during this\nfeverish night.",
"After over a year of indifference, Laurent's sudden attentions had\naroused her senses. As she tossed herself about in insomnia, she had\nseen the drowned man rise up before her; like Laurent she had writhed\nin terror, and ... |
3,011 | 6626_chapters_22-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Instead of fighting off Camille's ghostly presence, Therese and Laurent sink deeper and deeper into their state of maddened despair. Now, both of them succumb to the worst aspects of Therese's temperament: her over-sensitivity, fretfulness, and neuroses. Morality plays no part in these disturbances; rather, animalistic... | [
"The following nights proved still more cruel. The murderers had wished\nto pass this part of the twenty-four hours together, so as to be able\nto defend themselves against the drowned man, and by a strange effect,\nsince they had been doing so, they shuddered the more. They were\nexasperated, and their nerves so i... |
3,012 | 6626_chapters_26-29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After watching her body weaken and her joints stiffen, Mme Raquin finds herself reduced to a completely paralyzed state by a sudden stroke. And with Mme Raquin's absolute paralysis, a new stage is opened in Therese and Laurent's life of despair. Without the old woman's distracting chatter, they have no choice but to fa... | [
"The crisis threatening Madame Raquin took place. The paralysis, which\nfor several months had been creeping along her limbs, always ready to\nstrangle her, at last took her by the throat and linked her body. One\nevening, while conversing peacefully with Therese and Laurent, she\nremained in the middle of a senten... |
3,013 | 6626_chapters_30-32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Convinced that it is no longer in her power to avenge Camille's death, Mme Raquin decides to commit suicide by starving herself. Therese attempts to prevent Mme Raquin's self-destructive maneuver, yet Laurent is indifferent. In fact, he believes that Mme Raquin's death could bring a measure of relief. Mme Raquin learns... | [
"A time came when Madame Raquin, in order to escape the sufferings she\nendured, thought of starving herself to death. She had reached the\nend of her courage, she could no longer support the martyrdom that the\npresence of the two murderers imposed on her, she longed to find supreme\nrelief in death. Each day her ... |
3,014 | 447_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Spoiler alert: This book starts at the bottom of the heap and ends at the, er, bottomer of the heap. The book opens with violence . A ragamuffin named Jimmie is fighting with other Bowery neighborhood urchins to represent Rum Alley--a seriously down-and-out area--against the thugs from Devil's Row. These kids don't pul... | [
"A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum\nAlley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who\nwere circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.",
"His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was\nwrithing in the delivery of great, crimson oath... |
3,015 | 447_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Home life in the dark and dreary tenement is no treat either. "mall and ragged" Maggie--the big sister--and "bawling" Tommie --the baby brother--are there to greet father and Jimmie in the family's chaotic, filthy apartment. In terms of human wrath, no one compares to Mother Mary. She's Jimmie, Maggie, and Tommie's mom... | [
"Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening\nbuilding, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the\nstreet and the gutter. A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from\ncobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows. Long streamers of\ngarments fluttered from fire-escapes... |
3,016 | 447_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The old neighbor has problems of her own. She's a beggar and a thief, but for now, she's Jimmie's only option. She dispatches Jimmie to buy her a can of beer. Unfortunately, Jimmie's father intercepts him and steals the beer. He can't cope with the "livin hell" at home either. Jimmie hangs out before returning to the a... | [
"Jimmie and the old woman listened long in the hall. Above the muffled\nroar of conversation, the dismal wailings of babies at night, the\nthumping of feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound\nof varied hoarse shoutings in the street and the rattling of wheels\nover cobbles, they heard the scream... |
3,017 | 447_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The baby, Tommie, and "Ol' Johnson," the father, are dead, which seems to be no big deal. Weird. One can only imagine why. Obviously some time has gone by. Jimmie and Maggie are still around, though. And now Jimmie has a sassy attitude: sneering, hating the world, ready for a fight, and generally being a very ticked-of... | [
"The babe, Tommie, died. He went away in a white, insignificant coffin,\nhis small waxen hand clutching a flower that the girl, Maggie, had\nstolen from an Italian.",
"She and Jimmie lived.",
"The inexperienced fibres of the boy's eyes were hardened at an early\nage. He became a young man of leather. He live... |
3,018 | 447_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back to Maggie, a pretty young girl in a dilapidated tenement. What hope does she have growing up on Rum Alley? Her delicate beauty is lost on her co-workers at the sweatshop, where she sews collars and cuffs. Jimmie's in charge of the house now. Drunken Mary is still around, getting into scraps and developing her own ... | [
"The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. She grew to be a most\nrare and wonderful production of a tenement district, a pretty girl.",
"None of the dirt of Rum Alley seemed to be in her veins. The\nphilosophers up-stairs, down-stairs and on the same floor, puzzled over\nit.",
"When a child, playing and f... |
3,019 | 447_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | She's cute, and he's a "warrior," "invincible," and a "formidable man." Suffice it to say, she's hooked on the Pete Kool-Aid. Now her house seems even grimmer. She passes the time thinking about Pete and his job, his friends, his money, and just how generally superior he is to everything in her sad-sack life. Anticipat... | [
"Pete took note of Maggie.",
"\"Say, Mag, I'm stuck on yer shape. It's outa sight,\" he said,\nparenthetically, with an affable grin.",
"As he became aware that she was listening closely, he grew still more\neloquent in his descriptions of various happenings in his career. It\nappeared that he was invincible ... |
3,020 | 447_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Does Pete know how to party? You betcha. He loves himself a spectacle, so he takes Maggie to music halls, burlesque shows, and all manner of lowbrow entertainment. For Maggie, the escape from life at home is more than welcome. She really digs hanging out with Pete at the smoky orchestra performances, drinking beer and ... | [
"An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated\nstage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular\nwaltz. The place was crowded with people grouped about little tables.\nA battalion of waiters slid among the throng, carrying trays of beer\nglasses and making change from the ... |
3,021 | 447_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie starts getting stressed about her wardrobe. Dating Pete has upped the ante, and it seems like every lady on the street has nicer clothes. This stinks. She also starts to worry that she's going to become an old hag, like some of her co-workers at the collar and cuff factory. Pete is showing Maggie a really good t... | [
"As thoughts of Pete came to Maggie's mind, she began to have an intense\ndislike for all of her dresses.",
"\"What deh hell ails yeh? What makes yeh be allus fixin' and fussin'?\nGood Gawd,\" her mother would frequently roar at her.",
"She began to note, with more interest, the well-dressed women she met\non ... |
3,022 | 447_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary gets kicked out of the local saloon, an event she does not take well. The local collection of street urchins finds amusement in her anger, taunting and laughing, but it's not pretty to anyone else. Not one for subtlety, Mary kicks in the door of the apartment, where Jimmie greets her. A tussle ensues. Pete arrives... | [
"A group of urchins were intent upon the side door of a saloon.\nExpectancy gleamed from their eyes. They were twisting their fingers\nin excitement.",
"\"Here she comes,\" yelled one of them suddenly.",
"The group of urchins burst instantly asunder and its individual\nfragments were spread in a wide, respecta... |
3,023 | 447_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jimmie starts to get a little irked about Pete coming by and compromising his sister's reputation. A neighbor provokes Jimmie even more by reporting that she overheard Maggie basically begging Pete to love her. This can only mean one thing: Maggie has not acted so ladylike. He reports to his mom that Maggie has "gone t... | [
"Jimmie had an idea it wasn't common courtesy for a friend to come to\none's home and ruin one's sister. But he was not sure how much Pete\nknew about the rules of politeness.",
"The following night he returned home from work at rather a late hour in\nthe evening. In passing through the halls he came upon the g... |
3,024 | 447_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, at a local saloon--a kind of fancy place with some really stylish details, like "shimmering glasses" and "many-hued decanters" --Pete is behind the bar in a white jacket doing bartender-y things like pouring beer and drying glasses. Jimmie comes in with his pal Billie. They are both so good to go that we alm... | [
"On a corner a glass-fronted building shed a yellow glare upon the\npavements. The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers\nto enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage.",
"The interior of the place was papered in olive and bronze tints of\nimitation leather. A shining bar of counterfeit massiv... |
3,025 | 447_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some time has passed, and we find Pete and Maggie in an "irregular shaped" hall. The vibe of the venue has changed, and the classy factor seems to have nosedived. The seduction is over. Maggie still worships Pete as a valiant hero, while his interest seems to have waned some. She is reconciled with her decision to leav... | [
"In a hall of irregular shape sat Pete and Maggie drinking beer. A\nsubmissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair\nand a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the\nwaves of his baton. A ballad singer, in a dress of flaming scarlet,\nsang in the inevitable voice of bra... |
3,026 | 447_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Jimmie finally makes it back home after fighting with Pete, Mary is fit to be tied--she says that Maggie is a good-for-nothing so-and-so who has compromised her morality and ruined the family's reputation. Mary concludes by describing her daughter as wicked. Jimmie makes a feeble attempt to defend Maggie, but it's... | [
"Jimmie did not return home for a number of days after the fight with\nPete in the saloon. When he did, he approached with extreme caution.",
"He found his mother raving. Maggie had not returned home. The parent\ncontinually wondered how her daughter could come to such a pass. She\nhad never considered Maggie... |
3,027 | 447_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | What would she do without Pete? Maggie has been out of the house for three weeks and Pete is her everything, which is never a good thing, ladies. They continue to hang out at a sequence of seedy bars and cheesy entertainment venues. Pete no longer gazes at Maggie the same way, though, and now she stares at him "spaniel... | [
"In a hilarious hall there were twenty-eight tables and twenty-eight\nwomen and a crowd of smoking men. Valiant noise was made on a stage at\nthe end of the hall by an orchestra composed of men who looked as if\nthey had just happened in. Soiled waiters ran to and fro, swooping\ndown like hawks on the unwary in t... |
3,028 | 447_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A "forlorn woman" is wandering down a crowded avenue. Surely, it must be Maggie--she's the definition of forlorn. But wait... it isn't Maggie; it's Hattie. Apparently Jimmie has done his own number on a woman and now she's trying to track him down. It looks like Jimmie is no better than Pete after all, especially since... | [
"A forlorn woman went along a lighted avenue. The street was filled\nwith people desperately bound on missions. An endless crowd darted at\nthe elevated station stairs and the horse cars were thronged with\nowners of bundles.",
"The pace of the forlorn woman was slow. She was apparently searching\nfor some one... |
3,029 | 447_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete has no clue the trouble he hath wrought. Maggie has nowhere to turn, and not even Jimmie comes to her defense. But in-between thoughts of his new old love--"the woman of brilliance and audacity"--Pete feels some nagging guilt. He tries to push it away. He really hopes Maggie doesn't go to the bar where he works; h... | [
"Pete did not consider that he had ruined Maggie. If he had thought\nthat her soul could never smile again, he would have believed the\nmother and brother, who were pyrotechnic over the affair, to be\nresponsible for it.",
"Besides, in his world, souls did not insist upon being able to smile.\n\"What deh hell?\"... |
3,030 | 447_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Several months later... a painted lady walks down the street. Attempts to make eye contact with men fail. We assume this is Maggie, poor thing, now a prostitute looking for some man to pick her up. Men stare and offer excuses; no one is interested. She continues walking down the wet, cold streets until she gets to the ... | [
"Upon a wet evening, several months after the last chapter, two\ninterminable rows of cars, pulled by slipping horses, jangled along a\nprominent side-street. A dozen cabs, with coat-enshrouded drivers,\nclattered to and fro. Electric lights, whirring softly, shed a blurred\nradiance. A flower dealer, his feet t... |
3,031 | 447_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There's Pete--in a saloon, no less, but now he's a customer. He is a fine mess, drunk and buying drinks for a group of female hangers-on who are clearly using him. The waiter is disgusted by the drunken scene, which is saying something, since he's seen it all. Nellie--she of "brilliance and audacity" fame--is there. Pe... | [
"In a partitioned-off section of a saloon sat a man with a half dozen\nwomen, gleefully laughing, hovering about him. The man had arrived at\nthat stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.",
"\"I'm good f'ler, girls,\" he said, convincingly. \"I'm damn good f'ler.\nAn'body treats me right, ... |
3,032 | 447_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary's sitting monk-like and having a meal, when in comes Jimmie to very unceremoniously report that Maggie is dead. Mary--way too late--begins to express a little love for her daughter. It's hard not to want to slap her. She makes a spectacle of herself, wailing and carrying on while neighbors attempt to console her; ... | [
"In a room a woman sat at a table eating like a fat monk in a picture.",
"A soiled, unshaven man pushed open the door and entered.",
"\"Well,\" said he, \"Mag's dead.\"",
"\"What?\" said the woman, her mouth filled with bread.",
"\"Mag's dead,\" repeated the man.",
"\"Deh hell she is,\" said the woman. S... |
3,033 | 447_a_girl_of_the_streets_chapters_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens with a street battle between young boys from rival parts of the Bowery. The champion fighting for the "honor of Rum Alley" against the "Devil's Row" battalion is Jimmie. He fights with blind ferocity and innate savagery, even after his allies have run away. Finally, he is rescued from underneath a pile ... | [
"A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum\nAlley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who\nwere circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.",
"His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was\nwrithing in the delivery of great, crimson oath... |
3,034 | 447_a_girl_of_the_streets_chapters_4-9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | There is the passage of a considerable, unspecified number of years, perhaps ten or twelve. The father and baby Tommie die unremarkably and largely unremarked, and they vanish from the narrative. Meanwhile, Jimmie grows up--or devolves--into a hardened, scornful young man. Chapter 4 is a character sketch of his develop... | [
"The babe, Tommie, died. He went away in a white, insignificant coffin,\nhis small waxen hand clutching a flower that the girl, Maggie, had\nstolen from an Italian.",
"She and Jimmie lived.",
"The inexperienced fibres of the boy's eyes were hardened at an early\nage. He became a young man of leather. He live... |
3,035 | 447_a_girl_of_the_streets_chapters_10-13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The night after Mary tells Maggie to "go teh hell," Jimmie hears that the old woman saw Maggie crying and asking Pete if he loved her. Perhaps because he has been a party to this kind of scene before, Jimmie recognizes what it means: going home, he tells Mary that "Maggie's gone teh deh devil," the novel's euphemism fo... | [
"Jimmie had an idea it wasn't common courtesy for a friend to come to\none's home and ruin one's sister. But he was not sure how much Pete\nknew about the rules of politeness.",
"The following night he returned home from work at rather a late hour in\nthe evening. In passing through the halls he came upon the g... |
3,036 | 447_a_girl_of_the_streets_chapters_14-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We see a scene with a "forlorn woman" walking alone at night, searching for someone in saloon doorways. For a moment we imagine it might be Maggie, but then we discover it is Hattie, a woman who has been seduced and abandoned not by Pete but by Jimmie. She finds Jimmie, and he once again rebuffs her. But when Jimmie go... | [
"In a hilarious hall there were twenty-eight tables and twenty-eight\nwomen and a crowd of smoking men. Valiant noise was made on a stage at\nthe end of the hall by an orchestra composed of men who looked as if\nthey had just happened in. Soiled waiters ran to and fro, swooping\ndown like hawks on the unwary in t... |
3,014 | 447_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES Chapter 1 One little boy is standing on a heap of gravel trying to defend the honor of Rum Alley against a group of boys from Devils Row. He is screaming curses at them. One of his friends from Rum Alley calls for him to run to save himself, but he refuses to run. He calls the Devils Row bo... | [
"A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum\nAlley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who\nwere circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.",
"His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was\nwrithing in the delivery of great, crimson oath... |
3,015 | 447_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jimmie and his father reach a neighborhood where dozens of unattended infants and small children sit around the street and gutter. Laundry hangs from the fire escapes. "Formidable women" gossip with each other and scream out at each other. "Withered persons" sit around as if they have finally submitted to the wretchedn... | [
"Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening\nbuilding, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the\nstreet and the gutter. A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from\ncobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows. Long streamers of\ngarments fluttered from fire-escapes... |
3,016 | 447_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jimmie and the old woman listen to the fighting going on. They hear not only the screams of the Johnsons but of other tenants of the building as well. The old woman is a beggar. She sits outside the building all day collecting pennies from people who live elsewhere. She "crooks her legs under her and crouches immovable... | [
"Jimmie and the old woman listened long in the hall. Above the muffled\nroar of conversation, the dismal wailings of babies at night, the\nthumping of feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound\nof varied hoarse shoutings in the street and the rattling of wheels\nover cobbles, they heard the scream... |
3,017 | 447_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tommie dies. He is taken away in a "white, insignificant coffin." Maggie steals a flower for him. She and Jimmie live on. Jimmie becomes a "young man of leather." He spends some time unemployed. He watches people and feels nothing for their degradation since he has never seen anything better and has never been taught a... | [
"The babe, Tommie, died. He went away in a white, insignificant coffin,\nhis small waxen hand clutching a flower that the girl, Maggie, had\nstolen from an Italian.",
"She and Jimmie lived.",
"The inexperienced fibres of the boy's eyes were hardened at an early\nage. He became a young man of leather. He live... |
3,018 | 447_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle." No one in the tenement neighborhood notices her as a pretty girl when she is a child because she is so covered with tattered and dirty clothes. When she is a teenager, people are surprised at how pretty she is. The young men begin to comment on her. She gets a job making c... | [
"The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. She grew to be a most\nrare and wonderful production of a tenement district, a pretty girl.",
"None of the dirt of Rum Alley seemed to be in her veins. The\nphilosophers up-stairs, down-stairs and on the same floor, puzzled over\nit.",
"When a child, playing and f... |
3,019 | 447_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete notices Maggie is listening to his stories of fights. He calls out to her and tells her he is "stuck on shape. Its outa sight." Then he embellishes his stories even more for her benefit. Maggie sits and watches him in awe. She thinks he must have to look very far beneath him to notice her. He leaves the Johnson h... | [
"Pete took note of Maggie.",
"\"Say, Mag, I'm stuck on yer shape. It's outa sight,\" he said,\nparenthetically, with an affable grin.",
"As he became aware that she was listening closely, he grew still more\neloquent in his descriptions of various happenings in his career. It\nappeared that he was invincible ... |
3,020 | 447_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The orchestra plays a popular waltz to a crowded hall. Waiters bring gallons of beer and boys dressed up in French chef costumes carry fancy desserts. The crowd of customers is composed of men who look like they just got off work. All kinds of people are in the audience, people from all nationalities. Pete walks in agg... | [
"An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated\nstage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular\nwaltz. The place was crowded with people grouped about little tables.\nA battalion of waiters slid among the throng, carrying trays of beer\nglasses and making change from the ... |
3,021 | 447_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie begins to hate all her dresses after she begins to go out with Pete. Her mother screams at her for tending to herself so much. Maggie thinks if only she can dress nicely, she will be cherished and loved. She hates the sweatshop where she works. The women who have been there a long time are grizzled with all the ... | [
"As thoughts of Pete came to Maggie's mind, she began to have an intense\ndislike for all of her dresses.",
"\"What deh hell ails yeh? What makes yeh be allus fixin' and fussin'?\nGood Gawd,\" her mother would frequently roar at her.",
"She began to note, with more interest, the well-dressed women she met\non ... |
3,022 | 447_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A group of children wait outside the side door of a bar. One of them calls out a warning to the others and at that moment Mary Johnson comes reeling out of the bar. She is screaming at the bar keeper that she has been frequenting the bar for three years and finds it astonishing that they are now trying to ban her. The ... | [
"A group of urchins were intent upon the side door of a saloon.\nExpectancy gleamed from their eyes. They were twisting their fingers\nin excitement.",
"\"Here she comes,\" yelled one of them suddenly.",
"The group of urchins burst instantly asunder and its individual\nfragments were spread in a wide, respecta... |
3,023 | 447_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jimmie realizes that Pete has betrayed his trust. He brought Pete into his home and Pete has now ruined his sister. He gets home from work late the next evening and the old beggar woman catches him in the hallway. She tells him the night before she overheard Maggie talking to Pete. It was very late when they arrived ho... | [
"Jimmie had an idea it wasn't common courtesy for a friend to come to\none's home and ruin one's sister. But he was not sure how much Pete\nknew about the rules of politeness.",
"The following night he returned home from work at rather a late hour in\nthe evening. In passing through the halls he came upon the g... |
3,024 | 447_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A bar stands on a corner. Inside, it is full of fake furnishings. Mirrors line the walls and glasses are neatly stacked along the sideboard. "An odor of grasping, begrimed hands and munching mouths pervaded. " Pete is the bartender. He serves a customer a drink and then wipes the bar. Suddenly, Jimmie and a companion c... | [
"On a corner a glass-fronted building shed a yellow glare upon the\npavements. The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers\nto enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage.",
"The interior of the place was papered in olive and bronze tints of\nimitation leather. A shining bar of counterfeit massiv... |
3,025 | 447_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie and Pete are sitting in a hall drinking beer. A singer is on stage singing a ballad. She leaves the stage and returns with less clothing on. She repeats this maneuver several times. Each time she leaves, the men in the audience call out more loudly for her return. Maggie is pale. She leans on Pete as if he is th... | [
"In a hall of irregular shape sat Pete and Maggie drinking beer. A\nsubmissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair\nand a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the\nwaves of his baton. A ballad singer, in a dress of flaming scarlet,\nsang in the inevitable voice of bra... |
3,026 | 447_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After the fight, Jimmie stays away from home for a few days. When he returns, he finds his mother raving about Maggie. She hasnt come home for days. Mrs. Johnson bewails her fate. She cant believe after her careful rearing of Maggie that Maggie could have turned out so badly. Jimmie cant believe Maggie could have turne... | [
"Jimmie did not return home for a number of days after the fight with\nPete in the saloon. When he did, he approached with extreme caution.",
"He found his mother raving. Maggie had not returned home. The parent\ncontinually wondered how her daughter could come to such a pass. She\nhad never considered Maggie... |
3,028 | 447_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A forlorn woman walks along a crowded street looking for someone. When she sees Jimmie, she calls out to him. He is instantly exasperated to see her and pushes her away. She keeps pursuing him with entreaties. He tells her to "go to hell." Then he slips into a bar and loses her. He watches her through the window laughi... | [
"A forlorn woman went along a lighted avenue. The street was filled\nwith people desperately bound on missions. An endless crowd darted at\nthe elevated station stairs and the horse cars were thronged with\nowners of bundles.",
"The pace of the forlorn woman was slow. She was apparently searching\nfor some one... |
3,029 | 447_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete is in his bar thinking about Maggie. He doesnt think he is responsible for ruining Maggie. He tends to blame Mrs. Johnson and Jimmie for what has happened to Maggie. He also dismisses his moral responsibility toward Maggie on the grounds that in his world, people dont expect to be happy. He dismisses all of these ... | [
"Pete did not consider that he had ruined Maggie. If he had thought\nthat her soul could never smile again, he would have believed the\nmother and brother, who were pyrotechnic over the affair, to be\nresponsible for it.",
"Besides, in his world, souls did not insist upon being able to smile.\n\"What deh hell?\"... |
3,030 | 447_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Several months later, on a busy street, people begin to pour out of several theaters and find their way to their conveyances home. " An atmosphere of pleasure and prosperity seemed to hang over the throng, born, perhaps, of good clothes and of having just emerged from a place of forgetfulness. " In the midst of this th... | [
"Upon a wet evening, several months after the last chapter, two\ninterminable rows of cars, pulled by slipping horses, jangled along a\nprominent side-street. A dozen cabs, with coat-enshrouded drivers,\nclattered to and fro. Electric lights, whirring softly, shed a blurred\nradiance. A flower dealer, his feet t... |
3,031 | 447_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A man sits in a restaurant with six women around him. He is quite drunk and the women are encouraging him to brag about himself. He repeats over and over that he is a good fellow, encouraging the women to affirm this fact. They do in a bored way and he then repeats the self-praise. He buys drinks for the women and gets... | [
"In a partitioned-off section of a saloon sat a man with a half dozen\nwomen, gleefully laughing, hovering about him. The man had arrived at\nthat stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.",
"\"I'm good f'ler, girls,\" he said, convincingly. \"I'm damn good f'ler.\nAn'body treats me right, ... |
3,032 | 447_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A woman sits at a table "eating like a fat monk in a picture. " A dirty man opens the door and says to her "Well, Mags dead." The womans mouth is full. She answers that she doesnt believe him and continues to eat. Then she begins to weep. She remembers when Maggies feet were no bigger than an adults thumb and she wore ... | [
"In a room a woman sat at a table eating like a fat monk in a picture.",
"A soiled, unshaven man pushed open the door and entered.",
"\"Well,\" said he, \"Mag's dead.\"",
"\"What?\" said the woman, her mouth filled with bread.",
"\"Mag's dead,\" repeated the man.",
"\"Deh hell she is,\" said the woman. S... |
3,014 | 447_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The story opens in late nineteenth century New York City's Bowery district where a small boy from Rum Alley stands atop a pile of gravel. He and his friends are under attack by a rival gang of street urchins from Devil's Row and the little boy has chosen to make a stand. He throws rocks and hurls insults at his attacke... | [
"A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum\nAlley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who\nwere circling madly about the heap and pelting at him.",
"His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body was\nwrithing in the delivery of great, crimson oath... |
3,015 | 447_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Swept along by an early autumn breeze Jimmie and his father arrive at their miserable tenement building. Bedraggled clothes flap from the fire escapes, disordered women gossip and quarrel, withered old persons sit listlessly on the ground and babies are left to fight amongst themselves. The building itself is full of t... | [
"Eventually they entered into a dark region where, from a careening\nbuilding, a dozen gruesome doorways gave up loads of babies to the\nstreet and the gutter. A wind of early autumn raised yellow dust from\ncobbles and swirled it against an hundred windows. Long streamers of\ngarments fluttered from fire-escapes... |
3,016 | 447_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jimmie and the old woman listen until the noise from the fight fades. The old woman is a beggar who has practiced her trade on Fifth Avenue for many years. She earns a few pennies every day. Once she retrieved a dropped purse but even this seeming good luck had turned foul when the police caught her with the supposedly... | [
"Jimmie and the old woman listened long in the hall. Above the muffled\nroar of conversation, the dismal wailings of babies at night, the\nthumping of feet in unseen corridors and rooms, mingled with the sound\nof varied hoarse shoutings in the street and the rattling of wheels\nover cobbles, they heard the scream... |
3,017 | 447_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Time passes. The baby Tommie dies and goes to his grave clutching a flower that his sister steals for his tiny casket. Jimmie becomes a hardened young man who wears a permanent sneer. " He never conceived a respect for the world," we are told, "because he had begun with no idols that it had smashed." One day he and a c... | [
"The babe, Tommie, died. He went away in a white, insignificant coffin,\nhis small waxen hand clutching a flower that the girl, Maggie, had\nstolen from an Italian.",
"She and Jimmie lived.",
"The inexperienced fibres of the boy's eyes were hardened at an early\nage. He became a young man of leather. He live... |
3,018 | 447_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Against all odds, Maggie grows to be a pretty girl a condition that does not escape the attention of the males of her neighborhood. One day her brother advises her that she "edder got teh go teh hell or go teh work!" so she obtains a position in a shop making collars and cuffs. At the workshop she sits upon a stool and... | [
"The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle. She grew to be a most\nrare and wonderful production of a tenement district, a pretty girl.",
"None of the dirt of Rum Alley seemed to be in her veins. The\nphilosophers up-stairs, down-stairs and on the same floor, puzzled over\nit.",
"When a child, playing and f... |
3,019 | 447_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete continues to tell Jimmie about his triumphant fights. Pete notices that Maggie is paying close attention and his descriptions become more boastful. He says to Maggie: "Say, Mag, I'm stuck on your shape. It's outa sight." As he walks back and forth in the small apartment Maggie begins to think that he is truly a gr... | [
"Pete took note of Maggie.",
"\"Say, Mag, I'm stuck on yer shape. It's outa sight,\" he said,\nparenthetically, with an affable grin.",
"As he became aware that she was listening closely, he grew still more\neloquent in his descriptions of various happenings in his career. It\nappeared that he was invincible ... |
3,020 | 447_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete takes Maggie to a large music hall. An orchestra sits upon a stage near the center of the room. The hall is crowded with working class patrons, some with their families, and numerous waiters who carry trays of beer and make change. Small boys vend cakes to the throng and smoke from the men's pipes lingers high in ... | [
"An orchestra of yellow silk women and bald-headed men on an elevated\nstage near the centre of a great green-hued hall, played a popular\nwaltz. The place was crowded with people grouped about little tables.\nA battalion of waiters slid among the throng, carrying trays of beer\nglasses and making change from the ... |
3,021 | 447_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During the week following her outing with Pete, Maggie forms a dislike for her old worn clothes and begins to envy the fine adornments and mannerisms of the women she sees in the street. She believes these women to be completely happy. She also considers her workplace from a new perspective and worries that it is only ... | [
"As thoughts of Pete came to Maggie's mind, she began to have an intense\ndislike for all of her dresses.",
"\"What deh hell ails yeh? What makes yeh be allus fixin' and fussin'?\nGood Gawd,\" her mother would frequently roar at her.",
"She began to note, with more interest, the well-dressed women she met\non ... |
3,022 | 447_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with a group of street urchins who witness Mary's expulsion from a bar. She stumbles down the steps, cursing the owner of the establishment and begins her walk home. Along the way the urchins taunt her and she pauses from time to time to hurl maledictions at them. Finally she reaches the tenement hou... | [
"A group of urchins were intent upon the side door of a saloon.\nExpectancy gleamed from their eyes. They were twisting their fingers\nin excitement.",
"\"Here she comes,\" yelled one of them suddenly.",
"The group of urchins burst instantly asunder and its individual\nfragments were spread in a wide, respecta... |
3,023 | 447_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jimmie spends the next day wondering whether Pete knows that it is impolite to take Maggie and thereby ruin her. That night, on his way in from work, the old beggar woman who he used to shelter with during his parent's fights delightedly tells him of scene she witnessed the night before. She tells him that Maggie and P... | [
"Jimmie had an idea it wasn't common courtesy for a friend to come to\none's home and ruin one's sister. But he was not sure how much Pete\nknew about the rules of politeness.",
"The following night he returned home from work at rather a late hour in\nthe evening. In passing through the halls he came upon the g... |
3,024 | 447_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with a description of the bar where Pete works. It has a glass front and the interior is olive colored with bronze tints in order to imitate leather. It had one long side bar behind which numerous glasses are geometrically stacked in front of a large mirror. Lemons, oranges and paper napkins are prec... | [
"On a corner a glass-fronted building shed a yellow glare upon the\npavements. The open mouth of a saloon called seductively to passengers\nto enter and annihilate sorrow or create rage.",
"The interior of the place was papered in olive and bronze tints of\nimitation leather. A shining bar of counterfeit massiv... |
3,025 | 447_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete and Maggie sit in a hall listening to an orchestra and drinking beer. On the stage a woman sings a predictably brassy ballad. The woman returns for several encores, wearing less clothing in each successive appearance for the audience of boisterous men. Maggie is pale and she sits submissively next to Pete with the... | [
"In a hall of irregular shape sat Pete and Maggie drinking beer. A\nsubmissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair\nand a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the\nwaves of his baton. A ballad singer, in a dress of flaming scarlet,\nsang in the inevitable voice of bra... |
3,026 | 447_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After his fight with Pete Jimmie stays away from home for several days. Maggie does not return home. When Jimmie finally does return he finds his mother raving that her daughter has betrayed all of them. She cannot conceive of any reason why Maggie has fallen so low. The neighbors made the most of the woman's misfortun... | [
"Jimmie did not return home for a number of days after the fight with\nPete in the saloon. When he did, he approached with extreme caution.",
"He found his mother raving. Maggie had not returned home. The parent\ncontinually wondered how her daughter could come to such a pass. She\nhad never considered Maggie... |
3,027 | 447_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three weeks after Maggie leaves home to be with Pete they sit in yet another dance hall. At every table sat a woman of questionable character, the musicians were haphazard and their chief strength was speed. There is a woman onstage singing but the overly riotous crowd ignores her and drowns her song out with their vio... | [
"In a hilarious hall there were twenty-eight tables and twenty-eight\nwomen and a crowd of smoking men. Valiant noise was made on a stage at\nthe end of the hall by an orchestra composed of men who looked as if\nthey had just happened in. Soiled waiters ran to and fro, swooping\ndown like hawks on the unwary in t... |
3,028 | 447_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A downtrodden woman walks slowly down a busy street full of rushing people and busy horse cars. It is obvious from her behavior that she is searching for someone. At every saloon she waits outside the door and looks closely at the men going in and out. The men don't notice her and go about their business in ignorance o... | [
"A forlorn woman went along a lighted avenue. The street was filled\nwith people desperately bound on missions. An endless crowd darted at\nthe elevated station stairs and the horse cars were thronged with\nowners of bundles.",
"The pace of the forlorn woman was slow. She was apparently searching\nfor some one... |
3,029 | 447_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete succeeds in rationalizing his position vis a vis Maggie's compromised virtue. He transfers the blame to Maggie's family and comes to believe that it is they who have created Maggie's supposed downfall by making such a great fuss over her absence from home. He is alarmed when he considers that their excitement over... | [
"Pete did not consider that he had ruined Maggie. If he had thought\nthat her soul could never smile again, he would have believed the\nmother and brother, who were pyrotechnic over the affair, to be\nresponsible for it.",
"Besides, in his world, souls did not insist upon being able to smile.\n\"What deh hell?\"... |
3,030 | 447_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a rainy night several months later the respectable theaters are letting out from the evening show. Numerous carriages and cabs sit waiting in the street for the flood of humanity exiting the well-lit theaters. Flower vendors and other merchants make their wares known in the hustle and bustle of men and women walking... | [
"Upon a wet evening, several months after the last chapter, two\ninterminable rows of cars, pulled by slipping horses, jangled along a\nprominent side-street. A dozen cabs, with coat-enshrouded drivers,\nclattered to and fro. Electric lights, whirring softly, shed a blurred\nradiance. A flower dealer, his feet t... |
3,031 | 447_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pete sits in a sectioned off portion of a saloon surrounded by half a dozen mirthfully laughing women. Pete is drunk and full of affection for himself and the world. "I'm a good f'ler ," he says to the girls, "An'body treats me right, I allus trea's zem right! See?" The girls loudly agree that Pete is the kind of man t... | [
"In a partitioned-off section of a saloon sat a man with a half dozen\nwomen, gleefully laughing, hovering about him. The man had arrived at\nthat stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.",
"\"I'm good f'ler, girls,\" he said, convincingly. \"I'm damn good f'ler.\nAn'body treats me right, ... |
3,032 | 447_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This final chapter opens with a woman sitting at a table eating. An unkempt soiled man enters and says: "Well, Mag's dead." The woman responds: "Deh hell she is," and finishes her meal before she begins to cry. The man is Jimmie and the woman is Mary and the neighbors come running at the sound of her lamentations. She ... | [
"In a room a woman sat at a table eating like a fat monk in a picture.",
"A soiled, unshaven man pushed open the door and entered.",
"\"Well,\" said he, \"Mag's dead.\"",
"\"What?\" said the woman, her mouth filled with bread.",
"\"Mag's dead,\" repeated the man.",
"\"Deh hell she is,\" said the woman. S... |
3,037 | 12122_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a cold and rainy night, Mr. White and his son play chess in their warm parlor while Mrs. White knits comfortably. As they play, Mr. White complains that their villa is too far away from the town and it is difficult to travel there. He is expecting a guest, but the road is bad. What adds to his annoyance is that he l... | [
"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam\nVilla the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son\nwere at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving\nradical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils\nthat it even provo... |
3,038 | 12122_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the wholesome sunshine of the next morning, Herbert laughs at the fears from the previous night. The dirty and diminutive paw looks utterly powerless on the sideboard. Mrs. White scoffs at how they listened to the old soldier's tale. Mr. White says that the wish is supposed to happen naturally. Herbert rises to go t... | [
"In the brightness of the wintry sun next morning as it streamed over the\nbreakfast table he laughed at his fears. There was an air of prosaic\nwholesomeness about the room which it had lacked on the previous night,\nand the dirty, shrivelled little paw was pitched on the sideboard with a\ncarelessness which beto... |
3,039 | 12122_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Before they even know it is over, Herbert is buried in a cemetery and the couple is back at their house. They feel a strange sense of expectation at first, but soon resignation sets in. They are silent and weary. One dark night, Mr. White hears his wife weeping and calls for her to come back to bed. He dozes off again ... | [
"In the huge new cemetery, some two miles distant, the old people buried\ntheir dead, and came back to a house steeped in shadow and silence. It\nwas all over so quickly that at first they could hardly realize it, and\nremained in a state of expectation as though of something else to happen\n--something else which... |
3,037 | 12122_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "The Monkey's Paw" starts off the way many good scary stories start - with a dark and stormy night. We're in England, inside Laburnam Villa, where things are not dark and stormy. Actually, they are quite cheery - there's even a fire burning in the fireplace. Now we meet the White family. The father and mother both have... | [
"Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam\nVilla the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son\nwere at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving\nradical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils\nthat it even provo... |
3,038 | 12122_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Things don't look as scary to Herbert in the bright light of morning. He feels silly for letting a dirty little paw spook him last night. He makes some jokes about the paw and then leaves for work. Mrs. White doesn't believe in the power of the paw either, but she can't help thinking about the possibility of the money ... | [
"In the brightness of the wintry sun next morning as it streamed over the\nbreakfast table he laughed at his fears. There was an air of prosaic\nwholesomeness about the room which it had lacked on the previous night,\nand the dirty, shrivelled little paw was pitched on the sideboard with a\ncarelessness which beto... |
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