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3,167 | 463_chapter_xiii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Terrified that his fellow soldiers will revile him for fleeing from the battle, Henry totters toward the fire. He navigates his way past the bodies of his sleeping comrades with great difficulty. Suddenly a loud voice instructs him to halt. Henry recognizes Wilson standing guard. He informs Wilson that he has been shot... | [
"The youth went slowly toward the fire indicated by his departed friend.\nAs he reeled, he bethought him of the welcome his comrades would give\nhim. He had a conviction that he would soon feel in his sore heart the\nbarbed missiles of ridicule. He had no strength to invent a tale; he\nwould be a soft target.",
... |
3,168 | 463_chapter_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry wakes in the gray, misty dawn, feeling as though he has been "asleep for a thousand years. In the distance he hears the roar of fighting which rumbles around him with a "deadly persistency. Looking around at his sleeping comrades, Henry believes for a moment that he is surrounded by dead men and cries out in angu... | [
"When the youth awoke it seemed to him that he had been asleep for a\nthousand years, and he felt sure that he opened his eyes upon an\nunexpected world. Gray mists were slowly shifting before the first\nefforts of the sun rays. An impending splendor could be seen in the\neastern sky. An icy dew had chilled his ... |
3,169 | 463_chapter_xv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | He had performed his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man. Henry remembers the yellow envelope that Wilson had asked to be delivered to his family upon his death. He is about to remind Wilson of it, but thinks better of this at the last moment. He believes that having the envelope--an emblem of Wilson's past vul... | [
"The regiment was standing at order arms at the side of a lane, waiting\nfor the command to march, when suddenly the youth remembered the little\npacket enwrapped in a faded yellow envelope which the loud young\nsoldier with lugubrious words had intrusted to him. It made him start.\nHe uttered an exclamation and t... |
3,170 | 463_chapter_xvi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The men are led to a group of trenches where Wilson promptly falls asleep. For a time, rumors fly fast and fierce as to the conduct of the battle and the activities of the enemy. Briefly, Henry glimpses a column of gray-suited enemy soldiers, and his regiment is quickly marched into the forest. Henry begins complaining... | [
"A sputtering of musketry was always to be heard. Later, the cannon had\nentered the dispute. In the fog-filled air their voices made a\nthudding sound. The reverberations were continued. This part of the\nworld led a strange, battleful existence.",
"The youth's regiment was marched to relieve a command that ... |
3,171 | 463_chapter_xvii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a maddening and intense period of waiting for the inevitable, the enemy sweeps down upon the line of blue-uniformed men. Seized by a feverish hatred of the enemy, Henry fights in a frenzy, firing and reloading and refusing to retreat. In the heat and smoke, he is aware of nothing but his own rage. After a while, ... | [
"This advance of the enemy had seemed to the youth like a ruthless\nhunting. He began to fume with rage and exasperation. He beat his\nfoot upon the ground, and scowled with hate at the swirling smoke that\nwas approaching like a phantom flood. There was a maddening quality in\nthis seeming resolution of the foe... |
3,172 | 463_chapter_xviii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the Union troops rest, the fighting deeper in the forest intensifies until the air is parched with smoke and the battle-roar drowns out all other sounds. During a sudden lull in the battle, the men hear one of their comrades, Jimmie Rogers, crying out in pain. Thinking there is a stream nearby, Wilson offers to go f... | [
"The ragged line had respite for some minutes, but during its pause the\nstruggle in the forest became magnified until the trees seemed to\nquiver from the firing and the ground to shake from the rushing of the\nmen. The voices of the cannon were mingled in a long and interminable\nrow. It seemed difficult to liv... |
3,173 | 463_chapter_xix | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Henry and Wilson, who had believed their regiment to be unstoppable, are shocked to hear it insulted. They are further stunned to hear the general tell the officer that he expects most of the 304th to be killed in the coming attack. The two friends hurry back to their comrades with the news that they are about to charg... | [
"The youth stared at the land in front of him. Its foliages now seemed\nto veil powers and horrors. He was unaware of the machinery of orders\nthat started the charge, although from the corners of his eyes he saw\nan officer, who looked like a boy a-horseback, come galloping, waving\nhis hat. Suddenly he felt a s... |
3,174 | 463_chapter_xx | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After seizing the flag from the fallen color bearer, Henry and Wilson see the regiment slinking back toward them, the enemy having broken their charge. The lieutenant cries out angrily, but the men fall back to a row of trees, relatively safe from the deadly hail of gunfire. After a scuffle, Henry succeeds in pulling t... | [
"When the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the\nregiment had crumbled away, and the dejected remnant was coming slowly\nback. The men, having hurled themselves in projectile fashion, had\npresently expended their forces. They slowly retreated, with their\nfaces still toward the spluttering wo... |
3,175 | 463_chapter_xxi | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At last the regiment returns to the fortified position of its army. The other soldiers mock the 304th for stopping "about a hundred feet this side of a very pretty success," which fills Henry's group with impotent rage. Looking back across the field from his new position of safety, Henry is astonished to realize that a... | [
"Presently they knew that no firing threatened them. All ways seemed\nonce more opened to them. The dusty blue lines of their friends were\ndisclosed a short distance away. In the distance there were many\ncolossal noises, but in all this part of the field there was a sudden\nstillness.",
"They perceived that ... |
3,176 | 463_chapter_xxii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This praise fortifies Henry for the next battle, which he meets with "serene self-confidence. The blue and the gray form for "another attack in the pitiless monotony of conflicts. As the battle rages on, Henry's regiment thins. Great losses of life and energy hamper the regiment, and Henry loses himself in spectatorshi... | [
"When the woods again began to pour forth the dark-hued masses of the\nenemy the youth felt serene self-confidence. He smiled briefly when he\nsaw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were\nthrown in giant handfuls over them. He stood, erect and tranquil,\nwatching the attack begin against a ... |
3,179 | 463_chapters_23-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. The officers order a full-scale charge upon the fence, and the men comply with a final burst of energy. Bearing the flag as he runs through the smoke, Henry perceives dimly that many of the enemy soldiers are fleeing from the f... | [
"The colonel came running along back of the line. There were other\nofficers following him. \"We must charge'm!\" they shouted. \"We must\ncharge'm!\" they cried with resentful voices, as if anticipating a\nrebellion against this plan by the men.",
"The youth, upon hearing the shouts, began to study the distanc... |
3,180 | 25901_the_gospel_of_matthew | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | he Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, "Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!" Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds. Introduction In the second century a.d., the Gospel of Matthew was placed at the very beginning of the New Testament. It was believed to be the first Gos... | [
"THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW. CHAPTER I. THE GENEALOGY AND BIRTH OF CHRIST.",
"1 [1:1]AN account of the birth of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the\nson of Abraham. [1:2]Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and\nJacob begat Judah and his brothers; [1:3]and Judah begat Pharez and\nZarah by Thamar; and Pharez beg... |
3,181 | 25901_the_gospel_of_mark | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Introduction For a long time, the Gospel of Mark was the least popular of the Gospels, both among scholars and general readers. Mark's literary style is somewhat dull--for example, he begins a great number of sentences with the word "then." Luke and Matthew both contain the same story of Jesus's life, but in more sophi... | [
"THE GOSPEL OF MARK. CHAPTER I. THE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST, HIS TEMPTATIONS, AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF HIS MINISTRY.",
"1 [1:1]THE beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God,\n[1:2]as it is written in Isaiah the prophet; Behold, I send my\nmessenger before your face, who... |
3,182 | 25901_the_gospel_of_luke | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Introduction A sower went out to sow his seed; and as he sowed, some fell on the path, and was trampled on, and the birds of the air ate it up. The final editors of the New Testament separated the Gospel According to Luke and Acts of the Apostles, which were originally written by the same author in a single two-volume ... | [
"THE GOSPEL OF LUKE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION, AND THE TWO ANNUNCIATIONS.",
"1 [1:1]SINCE many have undertaken to arrange a complete digest of the\nthings fully believed among us, [1:2]as they delivered them to us who,\nfrom the beginning, were eye witnesses and ministers of the word,\n[1:3]it seemed good to me al... |
3,183 | 25901_the_gospel_of_john | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Introduction In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. The Fourth Gospel describes the mystery of the identity of Jesus. The Gospel According to John develops a Christology--an explanation of Christ's nature and origin--while leaving out much of th... | [
"THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. CHAPTER I. THE WORD.",
"1 [1:1]IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and\nthe Word was God. [1:2]This [Word] was in the beginning with God.\n[1:3]All things existed through him, and without him not one thing\nexisted, which existed. [1:4] In him was life, and the life was ... |
3,184 | 25901_acts_of_the_apostles | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Introduction Acts of the Apostles, the second part of the work that begins with the Gospel According to Luke, is the story of the early church after Jesus's martyrdom. Like Luke, Acts is addressed to the unknown reader Theophilus, and in the introduction to Acts, it is made clear that it is a continuation of Luke: "In ... | [
"ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. CHAPTER I. CHRIST'S ASCENSION, AND THE ELECTION OF AN APOSTLE IN THE PLACE OF JUDAS.",
"1 [1:1]I WROTE my first account, O Theophilus, of all things which\nJesus did and taught, [1:2]till the day that having given charge to the\napostles whom he chose by the Holy Spirit he was taken up; [1:... |
3,185 | 24_part_1,_chapters_1_-_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens in the town of Hanover, Nebraska. Frozen and unsettled, Hanover looks as if it might disappear at any moment, swallowed up by the vast, windblown prairie. This afternoon the streets are empty except for a little Swedish boy named Emil, who sits and cries because his kitten has been chased up a telegraph... | [
"One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover,\nanchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown\naway. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the\ncluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under\na gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about hap... |
3,186 | 24_part_1,_chapters_4_-_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After three years of prosperity, the Bergson family faces the second summer of what will be a three-year drought. Some farmers have had to foreclose on their farms and Alexandra knows that Oscar and Lou would rather be in Chicago working at their uncle's bakery than here. One afternoon Alexandra is picking sweet potato... | [
"For the first three years after John Bergson's death, the affairs of his family prospered. Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare. The first of these fruitless summe... |
3,187 | 24_part_2,_chapters_1_-_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sixteen years after John Bergson's death, the Divide has flourished and its population has boomed. No longer barren prairie, now the land is lush and a joy to farm. Emil stands outside of the Norwegian graveyard where his mother and father are both now buried, sharpening his scythe in preparation to mow the grass aroun... | [
"IT is sixteen years since John Bergson died. His wife now lies\nbeside him, and the white shaft that marks their graves gleams\nacross the wheat-fields. Could he rise from beneath it, he would\nnot know the country under which he has been asleep. The shaggy coat\nof the prairie, which they lifted to make him a bed... |
3,188 | 24_part_2,_chapters_5_-_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alexandra spends the next couple of days with Carl, taking walks, viewing the operations of the farm in the morning and talking well into the night. One morning, Carl walks at sunrise, reminded of his own youth in Nebraska, when he sees Emil and Marie hunting together. Emil kills five ducks and deposits them in Marie's... | [
"Alexandra did not find time to go to her neighbor's the next day, nor\nthe next. It was a busy season on the farm, with the corn-plowing\ngoing on, and even Emil was in the field with a team and cultivator.\nCarl went about over the farms with Alexandra in the morning, and\nin the afternoon and evening they found ... |
3,189 | 24_part_3,_chapter_1_-_part_4,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Winter covers the Divide. It is a hard country still in the winter, and it is difficult to imagine the spring. Alexandra receives weekly letters from Emil, and she still has not seen Oscar or Lou. She avoids the Norwegian Church, and though she spends as much time as possible with Marie, she has not spoken with her abo... | [
"Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in\nwhich Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the\nfruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring. The birds have\ngone. The teeming life that goes on down in the long grass is\nexterminated. The prairie-dog keeps his hole. The rabbits... |
3,190 | 24_part_4,_chapters_5_-_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Amedee undergoes an emergency operation for appendicitis. When Frank learns about Amedee, he heads to the saloon for drink and gossip, leaving Marie to call Alexandra for the details. Upon hanging up Marie considers how devastated she would be if Emil were to become ill. She decides to tell Alexandra about their love f... | [
"When Frank Shabata came in from work at five o'clock that evening,\nold Moses Marcel, Raoul's father, telephoned him that Amedee had\nhad a seizure in the wheatfield, and that Doctor Paradis was going\nto operate on him as soon as the Hanover doctor got there to help.\nFrank dropped a word of this at the table, bo... |
3,191 | 24_part_5,_chapters_1_-_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Shortly after Emil's death, Signa worries to Ivar that Alexandra has gone out in the rain. Ivar knows he will find her at the graveyard and hitches up a horse. Signa asks him why he doesn't wear shoes and he explains that the Bible governs all the body but the feet, so he lets them do as they wish. Signa responds to th... | [
"Ivar was sitting at a cobbler's bench in the barn, mending harness\nby the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.\nIt was only five o'clock of a mid-October day, but a storm had\ncome up in the afternoon, bringing black clouds, a cold wind and\ntorrents of rain. The old man wore his buffalo-s... |
3,192 | 24_part_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Welcome to Part I, which is on-the-nosedly titled "The Wild Land." The novel opens with a description of Hanover, a made-up town somewhere on the Nebraska prairie. We're not exactly talking prime real estate, here. Think Wizard of Oz, just without all those Technicolor parts. It's winter, it's freezing cold, and everyt... | [
"One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover,\nanchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown\naway. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the\ncluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under\na gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about hap... |
3,193 | 24_part_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator tells us some more about the Bergson homestead. Not exactly home sweet home, here--John Bergson, the father of Alexandra andEmil, has been toiling away in this wasteland for 11 years, without much to show for it. Plain and simple, the prairie land is "unfriendly to man" . Old man Bergson is on his deathbed... | [
"On one of the ridges of that wintry waste stood the low log house\nin which John Bergson was dying. The Bergson homestead was easier\nto find than many another, because it overlooked Norway Creek, a\nshallow, muddy stream that sometimes flowed, and sometimes stood\nstill, at the bottom of a winding ravine with ste... |
3,194 | 24_part_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | John Bergson has been dead for six months. Carl Linstrum is at home, daydreaming in the kitchen, when he sees the Bergson children coming over the hill in their horse-drawn wagon. When Carl runs up to them, Lou calls out, saying they're heading over to Crazy Ivar's to buy a hammock. Carl climbs aboard. Lou tries to sca... | [
"One Sunday afternoon in July, six months after John Bergson's death,\nCarl was sitting in the doorway of the Linstrum kitchen, dreaming\nover an illustrated paper, when he heard the rattle of a wagon along\nthe hill road. Looking up he recognized the Bergsons' team, with\ntwo seats in the wagon, which meant they w... |
3,195 | 24_part_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few years have passed, and the Bergson family is struggling through a period of drought and crop failure. Everyone has started to wonder whether the Nebraskan plains were ever even meant to be inhabited. Lou and Oscar would probably be happier with a regular job in the city, like their Uncle Otto, who's a baker in Ch... | [
"For the first three years after John Bergson's death, the affairs of his family prospered. Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare. The first of these fruitless summe... |
3,196 | 24_part_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter begins just as Emil and Alexandra are done with their trip to the river territory and are heading back to the Divide. They spent five days there, and Alexandra has learned a lot from talking to the farmers. But she doesn't see any reason for her family to move there. Emil wonders why his sister looks so che... | [
"Alexandra and Emil spent five days down among the river farms,\ndriving up and down the valley. Alexandra talked to the men about\ntheir crops and to the women about their poultry. She spent a\nwhole day with one young farmer who had been away at school, and\nwho was experimenting with a new kind of clover hay. Sh... |
3,197 | 24_part_2,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Let's move right along to Part 2, shall we? This one's called "Neighboring Fields." It's been sixteen years since John Bergson died. In the meantime, Mrs. Bergson has also passed away. And neither of them would be able to recognize the Divide now. Instead of the punishing landscape we got to know in Part I, the Divide ... | [
"IT is sixteen years since John Bergson died. His wife now lies\nbeside him, and the white shaft that marks their graves gleams\nacross the wheat-fields. Could he rise from beneath it, he would\nnot know the country under which he has been asleep. The shaggy coat\nof the prairie, which they lifted to make him a bed... |
3,198 | 24_part_2,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Emil gets home, his sister is at the kitchen table, eating with her farmhands. The three Swedish girls are running around, servingthe men, but also getting in each other's way and giggling. Alexandra could do their work herself, if she had too, but she likes having the girls around to keep her company when Emil is... | [
"Emil reached home a little past noon, and when he went into the\nkitchen Alexandra was already seated at the head of the long table,\nhaving dinner with her men, as she always did unless there were\nvisitors. He slipped into his empty place at his sister's right.\nThe three pretty young Swedish girls who did Alexa... |
3,199 | 24_part_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | But, first things first. The narrator tells us a little about the setting and the characters present at Alexandra's dinner. Alexandra had her dining room designed by a Hanover furniture dealer. It looks like a display window, and has enough useless objects and china to satisfy the expectations of society. Alexandra doe... | [
"Alexandra was to hear more of Ivar's case, however. On Sunday her\nmarried brothers came to dinner. She had asked them for that day\nbecause Emil, who hated family parties, would be absent, dancing\nat Amedee Chevalier's wedding, up in the French country. The table\nwas set for company in the dining-room, where hi... |
3,200 | 24_part_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Alexandra's observations on Carl. He doesn't seemed to have changed as much as you would expect; his clothes are still a little odd, and he still seems withdrawn, sensitive and unhappy. Later on the same evening of his arrival, Carl and Alexandra are chatting out in the flower garden. He asks her... | [
"Carl had changed, Alexandra felt, much less than one might have\nexpected. He had not become a trim, self-satisfied city man. There\nwas still something homely and wayward and definitely personal\nabout him. Even his clothes, his Norfolk coat and his very high\ncollars, were a little unconventional. He seemed to s... |
3,201 | 24_part_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next few days have been busy, and Alexandra can't find time to go to the old Linstrum farm with Carl. One morning, Carl wakes up early and decides to head over to his family's former homestead. He walks to the boundary between the Bergsons' place and his father's, and waits for the sunrise. He remembers milking the... | [
"Alexandra did not find time to go to her neighbor's the next day, nor\nthe next. It was a busy season on the farm, with the corn-plowing\ngoing on, and even Emil was in the field with a team and cultivator.\nCarl went about over the farms with Alexandra in the morning, and\nin the afternoon and evening they found ... |
3,202 | 24_part_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alexandra finally decides it's time to take Carl over to his old homestead, and pay a visit to Marie Shabata. As they're on their way over, Alexandra says how nice it's been to have a friend living at his old place again. Carl hopes it isn't the same as having him there. This surprises Alexandra, who denies that it's b... | [
"At dinner that day Alexandra said she thought they must really\nmanage to go over to the Shabatas' that afternoon. \"It's not often\nI let three days go by without seeing Marie. She will think I have\nforsaken her, now that my old friend has come back.\"",
"After the men had gone back to work, Alexandra put on a... |
3,203 | 24_part_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, we learn the backstory of Marie and Frank's match-gone-wrong. Marie's father, Albert Tovesky, was one of the most well respected Bohemian men in Omaha. Marie was his daughter by a second wife. When she was sixteen, Frank Shabata joined her class at Omaha High School, having just moved to Nebraska from ... | [
"Marie's father, Albert Tovesky, was one of the more intelligent\nBohemians who came West in the early seventies. He settled in Omaha\nand became a leader and adviser among his people there. Marie was\nhis youngest child, by a second wife, and was the apple of his eye. She was barely sixteen, and was in the graduat... |
3,204 | 24_part_2,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later in the evening, on the same day of Alexandra's visit to the Shabatas', Frank stays up late reading the newspaper, obsessed with thestory printed about a divorce in the community. The article lists all the extravagant expenses accrued by the husband, and Frank becomes outraged. Marie hates it when Frank reads the ... | [
"On the evening of the day of Alexandra's call at the Shabatas',\na heavy rain set in. Frank sat up until a late hour reading the\nSunday newspapers. One of the Goulds was getting a divorce, and\nFrank took it as a personal affront. In printing the story of the\nyoung man's marital troubles, the knowing editor gave... |
3,205 | 24_part_2,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | About a month after his arrival, Carl rides with Emil to the French country for a Catholic fair. Carl spends much of the time in the basement of the church, the narrator tellsus, and talks with Marie Shabata. Emil is walking with his friend Amedee back to the church, after a practice baseball game. Amedee is described ... | [
"On Sunday afternoon, a month after Carl Linstrum's arrival, he rode\nwith Emil up into the French country to attend a Catholic fair. He\nsat for most of the afternoon in the basement of the church, where\nthe fair was held, talking to Marie Shabata, or strolled about the\ngravel terrace, thrown up on the hillside ... |
3,206 | 24_part_2,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Alexandra is back at home, doing her accounting, when Lou and Oscar show up at her door. They want to speak with her about Carl. They ask her when he'll be leaving, because people have started to "talk" and they feel she's making them all look ridiculous by keeping him around . If he stays longer, people wil... | [
"While Emil and Carl were amusing themselves at the fair, Alexandra\nwas at home, busy with her account-books, which had been neglected\nof late. She was almost through with her figures when she heard\na cart drive up to the gate, and looking out of the window she saw\nher two older brothers. They had seemed to avo... |
3,207 | 24_part_2,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Emil comes home later that evening, without Carl. Alexandra is in her bedroom with the door closed. When Alexandra asks him where Carl is, without coming out of her room, he says they were stopped by Lou and Oscar on the way over, and the two of them wanted to have a chat with Carl. Alexandra and Emil sit down in the d... | [
"Emil came home at about half-past seven o'clock that evening. Old\nIvar met him at the windmill and took his horse, and the young\nman went directly into the house. He called to his sister and she\nanswered from her bedroom, behind the sitting-room, saying that\nshe was lying down.",
"Emil went to her door.",
... |
3,208 | 24_part_2,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Carl returns from his chat with Lou and Oscar. He avoids making eye contact with Alexandra, and she assumes that he's decided to takeoff. Carl confirms. He's sad that she's surrounded by such "little men," including himself . He's heading off tomorrow. He says he can't promise that he'll return with something more to o... | [
"Carl came into the sitting-room while Alexandra was lighting the\nlamp. She looked up at him as she adjusted the shade. His sharp\nshoulders stooped as if he were very tired, his face was pale,\nand there were bluish shadows under his dark eyes. His anger had\nburned itself out and left him sick and disgusted.",
... |
3,209 | 24_part_3,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the title of Part III, "Winter Memories," tells us, winter has come to the Divide. The narrator describes the barren, cold landscape as "dead," looking an awful lot like it will never come back to life again . Life has gone back to normal for Alexandra. She gets letters from Emil. She hasn't seen her other brothers ... | [
"Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in\nwhich Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the\nfruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring. The birds have\ngone. The teeming life that goes on down in the long grass is\nexterminated. The prairie-dog keeps his hole. The rabbits... |
3,210 | 24_part_3,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator opens the chapter by discussing Alexandra's ignorance of the whole drama with Emil and Marie. If she'd had more "imagination,"she might have been able to figure out what was up . But for Alexandra, this has always been her blind spot; she has never had much of a personal life, and her own desires are like ... | [
"If Alexandra had had much imagination she might have guessed what\nwas going on in Marie's mind, and she would have seen long before\nwhat was going on in Emil's. But that, as Emil himself had more\nthan once reflected, was Alexandra's blind side, and her life had\nnot been of the kind to sharpen her vision. Her t... |
3,211 | 24_part_4,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part 4 is called "The White Mulberry Tree." The chapter begins with a description of the French church, called the Church of Sainte-Agnes. The church is a tall brick building that sits on top of a hill, making it visible for miles all around. It's late in the day on a June afternoon. Alexandra is headed toward the Fren... | [
"The French Church, properly the Church of Sainte-Agnes, stood\nupon a hill. The high, narrow, red-brick building, with its tall\nsteeple and steep roof, could be seen for miles across the wheatfields,\nthough the little town of Sainte-Agnes was completely hidden away\nat the foot of the hill. The church looked pow... |
3,212 | 24_part_4,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fast forward a bit to the wedding of one of Alexandra's hired girls, Signa. The wedding has just finished and the guests are leaving--only Signa seems reluctant to leave. Finally, she and her husband take off, with two cows as a gift from Alexandra. When Marie complains about Signa's marriage to Nelse Jensen, who she t... | [
"Signa's wedding supper was over. The guests, and the tiresome\nlittle Norwegian preacher who had performed the marriage ceremony,\nwere saying good-night. Old Ivar was hitching the horses to the\nwagon to take the wedding presents and the bride and groom up to\ntheir new home, on Alexandra's north quarter. When Iv... |
3,213 | 24_part_4,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One week later, and Emil is busy packing up his books. He is getting ready to go study law with a Swedish lawyer in Omaha, before enrolling in law school in Michigan. He's not exactly enthusiastic about leaving. It feels like he's finally leaving home once and for all, and embarking on adulthood. But still, he doesn't ... | [
"One evening, a week after Signa's wedding, Emil was kneeling before\na box in the sitting-room, packing his books. From time to time\nhe rose and wandered about the house, picking up stray volumes and\nbringing them listlessly back to his box. He was packing without\nenthusiasm. He was not very sanguine about his ... |
3,214 | 24_part_4,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the next morning, Emil rides over to visit his friend Amedee. He finds Angelique, his wife, baking pies in the kitchen with old Mrs.Chevalier, Amedee's mother, and the baby boy, Hector Baptiste. She tells Emil that Amedee is out working in the fields. He's driving a new wheat header, a machine to harvest wheat. She ... | [
"The next morning Angelique, Amedee's wife, was in the kitchen baking\npies, assisted by old Mrs. Chevalier. Between the mixing-board\nand the stove stood the old cradle that had been Amedee's, and in\nit was his black-eyed son. As Angelique, flushed and excited, with\nflour on her hands, stopped to smile at the ba... |
3,215 | 24_part_4,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator fills us in on the rapid chain of events that have taken place in the meantime. When Frank gets home, he gets a telephone call telling him that Amedee has been carried off the field after having a seizure, and is waiting to have surgery. Once he leaves, Marie calls Alexandra, who already knows about Emil's... | [
"When Frank Shabata came in from work at five o'clock that evening,\nold Moses Marcel, Raoul's father, telephoned him that Amedee had\nhad a seizure in the wheatfield, and that Doctor Paradis was going\nto operate on him as soon as the Hanover doctor got there to help.\nFrank dropped a word of this at the table, bo... |
3,216 | 24_part_4,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While half the village of Saint-Agnes is mourning the death of Amedee, the other half is busy preparing for the confirmation service of all the little boys and girls. On Sunday morning, the bishop arrives from Hanover, and Emil rides out with 40 other French boys to meet him. As they return with the bishop, they pass b... | [
"The Church has always held that life is for the living. On Saturday,\nwhile half the village of Sainte-Agnes was mourning for Amedee and\npreparing the funeral black for his burial on Monday, the other\nhalf was busy with white dresses and white veils for the great\nconfirmation service to-morrow, when the bishop ... |
3,217 | 24_part_4,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Frank gets home that night and finds Emil's horse in the stable. He goes through the house, but finds no one. Becoming more and more angry, he gets his shotgun, a Winchester 405. As he leaves the house, the narrator notes, he has no intention of using his weapon at all. He doesn't really believe he has any reason to do... | [
"When Frank Shabata got home that night, he found Emil's mare in\nhis stable. Such an impertinence amazed him. Like everybody else,\nFrank had had an exciting day. Since noon he had been drinking too\nmuch, and he was in a bad temper. He talked bitterly to himself\nwhile he put his own horse away, and as he went up... |
3,218 | 24_part_4,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Ivar wakes up the next morning, he discovers Emil's horse, exhausted and with her bridle broken. He realizes something must have happened to Emil, because he would never have treated his horse like that. Ivar hurries across the fields to check with the neighbors. Meanwhile, the narrator describes the scene of viol... | [
"When old Ivar climbed down from his loft at four o'clock the next\nmorning, he came upon Emil's mare, jaded and lather-stained, her\nbridle broken, chewing the scattered tufts of hay outside the stable\ndoor. The old man was thrown into a fright at once. He put the\nmare in her stall, threw her a measure of oats, ... |
3,219 | 24_part_5,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Part V, titled "Alexandra," begins three months later. The news of Emil's and Marie's deaths has spread "like a fire" throughout the whole Divide . Signa, who has moved back in with Alexandra to help her out during the difficult period, rushes into the barn to speak with Ivar, who sits there mending a harness and recit... | [
"Ivar was sitting at a cobbler's bench in the barn, mending harness\nby the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.\nIt was only five o'clock of a mid-October day, but a storm had\ncome up in the afternoon, bringing black clouds, a cold wind and\ntorrents of rain. The old man wore his buffalo-s... |
3,220 | 24_part_5,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alexandra arrives in Lincoln, where she's going to visit Frank Shabata in prison. She decides to go to the university campus, where she last was for Emil's commencement. As she watches the students going about their lives, she wishes some of them would stop to talk to her and tell her about Emil. In fact, one of them d... | [
"Late in the afternoon of a brilliant October day, Alexandra Bergson,\ndressed in a black suit and traveling-hat, alighted at the Burlington\ndepot in Lincoln. She drove to the Lindell Hotel, where she had\nstayed two years ago when she came up for Emil's Commencement. In\nspite of her usual air of sureness and sel... |
3,221 | 24_part_5,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Alexandra is walking with Carl across the fields. After receiving his telegram in Lincoln, she left around midnight, arriving back inHanover in the early morning. Alexandra has taken off her black travelling suit and is wearing a white dress. Carl looks more or less the same, only a little more tanned. Still, he hardly... | [
"The next afternoon Carl and Alexandra were walking across the fields\nfrom Mrs. Hiller's. Alexandra had left Lincoln after midnight,\nand Carl had met her at the Hanover station early in the morning.\nAfter they reached home, Alexandra had gone over to Mrs. Hiller's\nto leave a little present she had bought for he... |
3,222 | 24_part_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens on a blustery January day in the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, some time between 1883 and 1890. A young woman named Alexandra Bergson has come to the small town to consult a doctor about her dying father. In town, her younger brother Emil's cat gets stuck atop a telegraph pole, and Carl Linstrum,... | [
"One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover,\nanchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown\naway. A mist of fine snowflakes was curling and eddying about the\ncluster of low drab buildings huddled on the gray prairie, under\na gray sky. The dwelling-houses were set about hap... |
3,187 | 24_part_2_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrative jumps to a time sixteen years after John Bergson's death. His wife has also died. Alexandra has become the most successful farmer on the Divide. Emil, her youngest brother, has had the luxury of attending college, and he has grown into a fine-figured young man. Now twenty-one, he is mowing the high grass ... | [
"IT is sixteen years since John Bergson died. His wife now lies\nbeside him, and the white shaft that marks their graves gleams\nacross the wheat-fields. Could he rise from beneath it, he would\nnot know the country under which he has been asleep. The shaggy coat\nof the prairie, which they lifted to make him a bed... |
3,188 | 24_part_2_chapters_5-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One morning during his stay at Alexandra Bergson's farm, Carl Linstrum gets up early to walk through the fields. Unseen, he watches Emil Bergson hunt ducks with Marie Shabata. Later that day, Carl and Alexandra visit Marie in her orchard. Marie's energetic pleasantness contrasts with her husband Frank's melancholic res... | [
"Alexandra did not find time to go to her neighbor's the next day, nor\nthe next. It was a busy season on the farm, with the corn-plowing\ngoing on, and even Emil was in the field with a team and cultivator.\nCarl went about over the farms with Alexandra in the morning, and\nin the afternoon and evening they found ... |
3,223 | 24_part_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The shortest of the novel's sections, "Winter Memories" paints scenes from Alexandra Bergson's long, dreary, bitter winter following the June departures of Emil Bergson and Carl Linstrum. First, Mrs. Lee, the mother of Alexandra's estranged sister-in-law, comes to visit Alexandra for several weeks; Mrs. Lee enjoys Alex... | [
"Winter has settled down over the Divide again; the season in\nwhich Nature recuperates, in which she sinks to sleep between the\nfruitfulness of autumn and the passion of spring. The birds have\ngone. The teeming life that goes on down in the long grass is\nexterminated. The prairie-dog keeps his hole. The rabbits... |
3,224 | 24_part_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel's climactic section, "The White Mulberry Tree" opens on a June afternoon, with Emil Bergson's return from a year-long stay in Mexico City. He accompanies his sister Alexandra to a supper and fair at the local Catholic church. Marie Shabata is there, as well. The two discover that their love has only grown dur... | [
"The French Church, properly the Church of Sainte-Agnes, stood\nupon a hill. The high, narrow, red-brick building, with its tall\nsteeple and steep roof, could be seen for miles across the wheatfields,\nthough the little town of Sainte-Agnes was completely hidden away\nat the foot of the hill. The church looked pow... |
3,191 | 24_part_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a stormy October evening three months after the murders of Emil Bergson and Marie Shabata, Signa sends Ivar in search of Alexandra, who has vanished into the storm. Ivar finds her alone, in the rain, at Emil's grave. Her exposure to the storm induces exhaustion, and Alexandra must spend the next few days in bed, rec... | [
"Ivar was sitting at a cobbler's bench in the barn, mending harness\nby the light of a lantern and repeating to himself the 101st Psalm.\nIt was only five o'clock of a mid-October day, but a storm had\ncome up in the afternoon, bringing black clouds, a cold wind and\ntorrents of rain. The old man wore his buffalo-s... |
3,225 | 6688_book_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside Dorlcote Mill The narrator, asleep in her chair, dreams of Dorlcote Mill, and in doing so describes the town of St Ogg's along the Floss and a little girl standing at the edge of the water by the mill thirty years ago. When she wakes, she resumes the story of Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver's actions on the very afternoo... | [
"Outside Dorlcote Mill",
"A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green\nbanks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its\npassage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black\nships--laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of\noil-beari... |
3,226 | 6688_book_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom's "First Half" Tom finds life at King's Lorton, where he is now the sole student to Mr. Stelling, unpleasant. The material is harder than anything he has faced before, and he has Mr. Stelling's undivided attention. Mr. and Mrs. Tulliver, though, are both quite pleased with what they see when they leave him there. M... | [
"Tom's \"First Half\"",
"Tom Tulliver's sufferings during the first quarter he was at King's\nLorton, under the distinguished care of the Rev. Walter Stelling, were\nrather severe. At Mr. Jacob's academy life had not presented itself to\nhim as a difficult problem; there were plenty of fellows to play with,\nand ... |
3,227 | 6688_book_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | What Had Happened at Home Right after finding out he has lost the lawsuit, Mr. Tulliver turns his obstinacy towards planning to provide for himself and his family. He believes Mr. Furley, who owns the mortgage on the land, will be willing to buy the mill from Mr. Tulliver and keep him on as a tenant, and that his wife ... | [
"What Had Happened at Home",
"When Mr. Tulliver first knew the fact that the lawsuit was decided\nagainst him, and that Pivart and Wakem were triumphant, every one who\nhappened to observe him at the time thought that, for so confident and\nhot-tempered a man, he bore the blow remarkably well. He thought so\nhims... |
3,228 | 6688_book_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet The narrator takes a break from the story's action to present an interlude describing the contrast between the ruins of villages on the Rhone and of castles on the Rhine, and how the former feels small and oppressive in the way that the traditions of the older generation ... | [
"A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet",
"Journeying down the Rhone on a summer's day, you have perhaps felt the\nsunshine made dreary by those ruined villages which stud the banks in\ncertain parts of its course, telling how the swift river once rose,\nlike an angry, destroying god, sweeping down the f... |
3,229 | 6688_book_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the Red Deeps Mr. Wakem comes on one of his usual visits, but this time he brings Philip with him. Maggie , seeing them approach, hurries upstairs so that she won't have to meet Philip in front of their fathers. Once she thinks they have left, she goes outside to walk and ends up coming upon Philip, who was waiting ... | [
"In the Red Deeps",
"The family sitting-room was a long room with a window at each end; one\nlooking toward the croft and along the Ripple to the banks of the\nFloss, the other into the mill-yard. Maggie was sitting with her work\nagainst the latter window when she saw Mr. Wakem entering the yard, as\nusual, on h... |
3,230 | 6688_book_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A Duet in Paradise Two years later, Mrs. Deane has died and Mrs. Tulliver - who had come to take care of her sister in her illness - is now living at the Deanes'. Lucy tells Stephen Guest that her cousin Maggie is leaving the school where she has been teaching since Mr. Tulliver's death and coming to stay at Lucy's. St... | [
"A Duet in Paradise",
"The well-furnished drawing-room, with the open grand piano, and the\npleasant outlook down a sloping garden to a boat-house by the side of\nthe Floss, is Mr. Deane's. The neat little lady in mourning, whose\nlight-brown ringlets are falling over the colored embroidery with\nwhich her finger... |
3,231 | 6688_book_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Return to the Mill Five days after Stephen and Maggie first disappear, Tom is back at Dorlcote Mill. Thanks to the news that Bob Jakin saw Maggie and Stephen get off a boat together, he knows there has been no accident. He sees Maggie approaching, and can tell immediately that she is not married, confirming his wor... | [
"The Return to the Mill",
"Between four and five o'clock on the afternoon of the fifth day from\nthat on which Stephen and Maggie had left St. Ogg's, Tom Tulliver was\nstanding on the gravel walk outside the old house at Dorlcote Mill. He\nwas master there now; he had half fulfilled his father's dying wish,\nand ... |
3,232 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | An anonymous narrator describes the Floss to us, which is a river. Good to know it's not of the dental variety, because this book would be really bizarre then. The narrator describes a picturesque, or pretty, nature scene. The narrator emphasizes how noisy the mill and the river are and notes that the sound cuts off th... | [
"Outside Dorlcote Mill",
"A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green\nbanks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its\npassage with an impetuous embrace. On this mighty tide the black\nships--laden with the fresh-scented fir-planks, with rounded sacks of\noil-beari... |
3,233 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Tulliver announces that he wants Tom to get a good education. He thinks Tom's current school is terrible and wants to send him to a better one so that he can become something cool one day, like an engineer or a surveyor. Mr. Tulliver does not want Tom to be a lawyer though, because lawyers are evil. But Tom will ne... | [
"Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom",
"\"What I want, you know,\" said Mr. Tulliver,--\"what I want is to give\nTom a good eddication; an eddication as'll be a bread to him. That was\nwhat I was thinking of when I gave notice for him to leave the academy\nat Lady-day. I mean to put ... |
3,234 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We meet Mr. Riley, who is an auctioneer and an appraiser. He's an educated businessman. Mr. Tulliver complains about lawyers some more. We learn that there's a man named Wakem involved in some dispute about water rights on the river with Mr. Tulliver. Once again, Mr. Tulliver begins his spiel about sending Tom to a nic... | [
"Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom",
"The gentleman in the ample white cravat and shirt-frill, taking his\nbrandy-and-water so pleasantly with his good friend Tulliver, is Mr.\nRiley, a gentleman with a waxen complexion and fat hands, rather\nhighly educated for an auctioneer and appraiser, b... |
3,235 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie is bummed out that she can't go with her dad to pick up Tom from school. Her mom is trying to fix her hair, but Maggie finds this annoying. So she runs off and dunks her head in some water, ruining her hairstyle. Mrs. Tulliver is frustrated and scolds Maggie. An angry Maggie runs off to the attic and proceeds to... | [
"Tom Is Expected",
"It was a heavy disappointment to Maggie that she was not allowed to go\nwith her father in the gig when he went to fetch Tom home from the\nacademy; but the morning was too wet, Mrs. Tulliver said, for a little\ngirl to go out in her best bonnet. Maggie took the opposite view very\nstrongly, a... |
3,236 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom finally arrives. We learn that Mrs. Tulliver plays favorites with her kids and that she is much nicer to Tom than she is to Maggie. Tom looks like a typical English kid around the age of twelve or thirteen. Being a nice brother, Tom has brought Maggie a present. He gives her a fishing rod and tells her that he'll t... | [
"Tom Comes Home",
"Tom was to arrive early in the afternoon, and there was another\nfluttering heart besides Maggie's when it was late enough for the\nsound of the gig-wheels to be expected; for if Mrs. Tulliver had a\nstrong feeling, it was fondness for her boy. At last the sound\ncame,--that quick light bowling... |
3,237 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Tulliver is running around, anxiously preparing for an upcoming visit by her sisters and her brothers-in-law. The narrator tells us that Mrs. Tulliver used to be Miss Dodson. The Dodsons are an impressive family with lots of strict rules about how to behave. Basically, the Dodsons think they are the best family ev... | [
"The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming",
"It was Easter week, and Mrs. Tulliver's cheesecakes were more\nexquisitely light than usual. \"A puff o' wind 'ud make 'em blow about\nlike feathers,\" Kezia the housemaid said, feeling proud to live under\na mistress who could make such pastry; so that no season or\ncircumstan... |
3,238 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Gleggs are the first to arrive at the Tullivers, which is bad for Tom and Maggie since they can't stand Aunt Glegg. Aunt Glegg is old, old-fashioned, and judgmental. Mrs. Glegg complains about her other sisters to Mrs. Tulliver, and then criticizes what time dinner is served in the Tulliver house. She then proceeds... | [
"Enter the Aunts and Uncles",
"The Dodsons were certainly a handsome family, and Mrs. Glegg was not\nthe least handsome of the sisters. As she sat in Mrs. Tulliver's\narm-chair, no impartial observer could have denied that for a woman of\nfifty she had a very comely face and figure, though Tom and Maggie\nconside... |
3,239 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The fight with the Gleggs is still on everyone's mind. Mr. Tulliver decides to pay the Gleggs back since they loaned him some money. He doesn't want to owe Mrs. Glegg anything now. But this means that Mr. Tulliver will need to get his brother-in-law, Mr. Moss, to pay him back some money, so that Mr. Tulliver can then g... | [
"Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side",
"\"Suppose sister Glegg should call her money in; it 'ud be very awkward\nfor you to have to raise five hundred pounds now,\" said Mrs. Tulliver\nto her husband that evening, as she took a plaintive review of the\nday.",
"Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husb... |
3,240 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Tulliver kids, their mom, and Lucy go to visit the Pullets at their house, Garrum Firs. Before they leave, a hairdresser comes to fix Maggie's wacky haircut. He tells Maggie that she looks awful and Maggie is mad. Her mom then tells her to stop looking ugly. Apparently Maggie can alter how she looks through sheer f... | [
"To Garum Firs",
"While the possible troubles of Maggie's future were occupying her\nfather's mind, she herself was tasting only the bitterness of the\npresent. Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no\nmemories of outlived sorrow.",
"The fact was, the day had begun ill with Maggie. The pleas... |
3,241 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We quickly learn that the object in question is Lucy, covered in mud. We flashback, Lost-style, to the moment when the kids went outside. Tom is still being bratty and is ignoring Maggie. Lucy likes Maggie and tries to include her, but Maggie is getting increasingly upset. Tom decides to go check out the pond, even tho... | [
"Maggie Behaves Worse Than She Expected",
"The startling object which thus made an epoch for uncle Pullet was no\nother than little Lucy, with one side of her person, from her small\nfoot to her bonnet-crown, wet and discolored with mud, holding out two\ntiny blackened hands, and making a very piteous face. To ac... |
3,242 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie is so upset that she decides to run away from home and join the gypsies since everyone always tells her that she looks like a "wild gypsy" anyway. Maggie has heard that the gypsies often camp out on Dunlow Common so she heads off, guessing as to the right direction. After walking for a while, Maggie starts to ge... | [
"Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow",
"Maggie's intentions, as usual, were on a larger scale than Tom\nimagined. The resolution that gathered in her mind, after Tom and Lucy\nhad walked away, was not so simple as that of going home. No! she\nwould run away and go to the gypsies, and Tom should never see her... |
3,243 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. and Mrs. Glegg live in the nearby town of St. Ogg's. The narrator breaks in to tell us the legend of St. Ogg, who ferried a poor woman across the river Floss one night. Turns out the poor woman was really the Virgin Mary and she blessed St. Ogg for his kindness. After this, Ogg was able to go out safely in his boat... | [
"Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at Home",
"In order to see Mr. and Mrs. Glegg at home, we must enter the town of\nSt. Ogg's,--that venerable town with the red fluted roofs and the\nbroad warehouse gables, where the black ships unlade themselves of\ntheir burthens from the far north, and carry away, in exchange, the\nprecious... |
3,244 | 6688_book_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Pullet goes to see Mrs. Glegg and is surprised to find her in a better mood. Mrs. Glegg says that she'll let bygones be bygones, but that Mrs. Tulliver will have to come see her first. Mrs. Pullet is relieved and proceeds to tell Mrs. Glegg all about the incident with the Tulliver kids and Lucy yesterday at her ho... | [
"Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein of Life",
"Owing to this new adjustment of Mrs. Glegg's thoughts, Mrs. Pullet\nfound her task of mediation the next day surprisingly easy. Mrs.\nGlegg, indeed checked her rather sharply for thinking it would be\nnecessary to tell her elder sister what was the right mode o... |
3,245 | 6688_book_2,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom is having a terrible time at school with Mr. Stelling. Tom's old school was not too bad overall. And Tom finds school boring and useless. Turns out that Tom is the only pupil at Mr. Stelling's, which makes his situation really awkward. Mr. Stelling is a nice guy but he doesn't really understand how to interact with... | [
"Tom's \"First Half\"",
"Tom Tulliver's sufferings during the first quarter he was at King's\nLorton, under the distinguished care of the Rev. Walter Stelling, were\nrather severe. At Mr. Jacob's academy life had not presented itself to\nhim as a difficult problem; there were plenty of fellows to play with,\nand ... |
3,246 | 6688_book_2,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator describes how the Tulliver house is very cheery at Christmastime. But Tom notices that something seems a little off. Turns out that Mr. Tulliver is in a terrible mood. Some man in the neighborhood, a Mr. Privart, is trying some new irrigation techniques and it's interfering with Tulliver's Mill, which runs... | [
"The Christmas Holidays",
"Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his\nduty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts\nof warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and\nsnow.",
"Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the... |
3,247 | 6688_book_2,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom goes back to school and meets Philip Wakem. Philip has a hunchback and Tom is uncomfortable around him. Philip and Tom are both proud and shy so they don't say much to each other during their first meeting. It's all very awkward. Tom notices that Philip is not only deformed, but he also looks a bit like a girl. Phi... | [
"The New Schoolfellow",
"It was a cold, wet January day on which Tom went back to school; a day\nquite in keeping with this severe phase of his destiny. If he had not\ncarried in his pocket a parcel of sugar-candy and a small Dutch doll\nfor little Laura, there would have been no ray of expected pleasure to\nenli... |
3,248 | 6688_book_2,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom and Philip never really bond as the weeks go by, since they have very different personalities. Philip is pretty moody and sensitive and Tom tends to bluster about and offend Philip without really meaning to do so. Tom starts taking drawing lessons and is bummed since he is only allowed to draw nature scenes and and... | [
"\"The Young Idea\"",
"The alterations of feeling in that first dialogue between Tom and Philip continued to make their intercourse even after many weeks of schoolboy intimacy. Tom never quite lost the feeling that Philip, being the son of a \"rascal,\" was his natural enemy; never thoroughly overcame his repulsi... |
3,249 | 6688_book_2,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom and Philip are no longer speaking and only talk to one another when Mr. Stelling is around. Maggie shows up and Tom is glad. Maggie instantly likes Philip since she pities him. Tom runs upstairs, telling Maggie that he has a surprise for her and that he'll show it to her later that day. The boys and Maggie gather i... | [
"Maggie's Second Visit",
"This last breach between the two lads was not readily mended, and for\nsome time they spoke to each other no more than was necessary. Their\nnatural antipathy of temperament made resentment an easy passage to\nhatred, and in Philip the transition seemed to have begun; there was\nno malig... |
3,250 | 6688_book_2,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom is terribly worried that he will be lame, or have a limp, for the rest of his life. Mr. Stelling doesn't think to reassure Tom, but luckily Philip asks about it and goes to tell Tom the good news: he won't have a permanent injury. Tom and Philip reconcile and Philip hangs out with Tom and Maggie, telling them fun s... | [
"A Love-Scene",
"Poor Tom bore his severe pain heroically, and was resolute in not\n\"telling\" of Mr. Poulter more than was unavoidable; the five-shilling\npiece remained a secret even to Maggie. But there was a terrible dread\nweighing on his mind, so terrible that he dared not even ask the\nquestion which migh... |
3,251 | 6688_book_2,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We jump forward in time - Tom is now sixteen and has been studying all the while at Mr. Stelling's. Tom and Philip never recover their temporary friendship and Maggie rarely sees Philip anymore. Mr. Tulliver is now engaged in his lawsuit with Mr. Privart and Mr. Wakem, and Maggie is sad that this probably means the end... | [
"The Golden Gates Are Passed",
"So Tom went on even to the fifth half-year--till he was turned sixteen--at King's Lorton, while Maggie was growing with a rapidity which her aunts considered highly reprehensible, at Miss Firniss's boarding-school in the ancient town of Laceham on the Floss, with cousin Lucy for he... |
3,252 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We flashback to learn how Mr. Tulliver lost the lawsuit and became ill. Mr. Tulliver was confident that he would win the lawsuit. When he lost, Mr. Tulliver went into crisis mode, assessing his financial state, which was not good at all. Mr. Tulliver owed a lot of people money and was going to have to borrow even more ... | [
"What Had Happened at Home",
"When Mr. Tulliver first knew the fact that the lawsuit was decided\nagainst him, and that Pivart and Wakem were triumphant, every one who\nhappened to observe him at the time thought that, for so confident and\nhot-tempered a man, he bore the blow remarkably well. He thought so\nhims... |
3,253 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom and Maggie arrive home to find a bailiff in their house. A bailiff is basically a court officer who collects unpaid fines or, in the case of the Tullivers, comes to repossess their belongings. The kids find Mrs. Tulliver in the storeroom, crying over all her nice belongings. She reminisces about all her stuff and i... | [
"Mrs. Tulliver's Teraphim, or Household Gods",
"When the coach set down Tom and Maggie, it was five hours since she\nhad started from home, and she was thinking with some trembling that\nher father had perhaps missed her, and asked for \"the little wench\" in\nvain. She thought of no other change that might have ... |
3,254 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The aunts and uncles descend once again on the Tulliver house. Mrs. Deane arrives first in a fancy carriage. Her husband is away on business. The wealthy Mrs. Deane comforts Mrs. Tulliver with some useless platitudes, or meaningless sayings, like 'tomorrow may be better.' Mrs. Tulliver quickly begins talking up her hou... | [
"The Family Council",
"It was at eleven o'clock the next morning that the aunts and uncles\ncame to hold their consultation. The fire was lighted in the large\nparlor, and poor Mrs. Tulliver, with a confused impression that it was\na great occasion, like a funeral, unbagged the bell-rope tassels, and\nunpinned th... |
3,255 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Glegg, Tom, and Maggie head upstairs to destroy the note saying that Mr. Moss owes Mr. Tulliver money. The note is in a chest in Mr. Tulliver's room. Mr. Glegg accidentally drops the chest, which wakes up Mr. Tulliver. Mr. Tulliver is aware of what's going on for the first time in days and begins questioning everyo... | [
"A Vanishing Gleam",
"Mr. Tulliver, even between the fits of spasmodic rigidity which had\nrecurred at intervals ever since he had been found fallen from his\nhorse, was usually in so apathetic a condition that the exits and\nentrances into his room were not felt to be of great importance. He\nhad lain so still, ... |
3,256 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom goes to St. Ogg's the next day to see his uncle, Mr. Deane. He plans to ask Mr. Deane to help him find some sort of a job. Tom is depressed, but determined, and hopes that in the future he'll clear his father's name and become a successful man of business. The people in town ask Tom how his father is, or else gossi... | [
"Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster",
"The next day, at ten o'clock, Tom was on his way to St. Ogg's, to see\nhis uncle Deane, who was to come home last night, his aunt had said;\nand Tom had made up his mind that his uncle Deane was the right person\nto ask for advice about getting some employment. He was in a ... |
3,257 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Tulliver's condition has gotten worse and the doctor, Mr. Turnbull, is concerned. The sale of the Tulliver's furniture occurs and Mr. Tulliver is insensible during it. The family stay upstairs during the sale. The maid then comes to get Tom, since he has a visitor downstairs. The visitor is Bob Jakin, who Tom doesn... | [
"Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice against the Present of a\nPocket-Knife",
"In that dark time of December, the sale of the household furniture\nlasted beyond the middle of the second day. Mr. Tulliver, who had\nbegun, in his intervals of consciousness, to manifest an irritability\nwhich often appeared to h... |
3,258 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few more days pass and Mr. Tulliver gradually begins to get better. Meanwhile the Tulliver's land and farm animals are all being sold. Mr. Deane is considering having Guest and Co. buy the family mill, but he hesitates since Wakem still owns the mortgage. The Gleggs look at the Mill, but Mr. Glegg doesn't want to use... | [
"How a Hen Takes to Stratagem",
"The days passed, and Mr. Tulliver showed, at least to the eyes of the\nmedical man, stronger and stronger symptoms of a gradual return to his\nnormal condition; the paralytic obstruction was, little by little,\nlosing its tenacity, and the mind was rising from under it with fitful... |
3,259 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Tulliver is finally able to come downstairs again, since his health is better. He has some really big memory gaps though, and has no idea how bad his family's current situation is. The doctor, Mr. Turnbull, worries about him ever regaining his memory. Mr. Wakem has bought the mill and the rest of the family regards... | [
"Daylight on the Wreck",
"It was a clear frosty January day on which Mr. Tulliver first came\ndownstairs. The bright sun on the chestnut boughs and the roofs\nopposite his window had made him impatiently declare that he would be\ncaged up no longer; he thought everywhere would be more cheery under\nthis sunshine ... |
3,260 | 6688_book_3,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over the next few days, Mr. Tulliver struggles with his surrender to circumstances and his promise to his wife to work for Wakem. But as much as Mr. Tulliver hates Wakem, he can't bring himself to leave his home, where the Tullivers have lived for generations. He and Luke talk things over and Luke agrees that it's best... | [
"An Item Added to the Family Register",
"That first moment of renunciation and submission was followed by days\nof violent struggle in the miller's mind, as the gradual access of\nbodily strength brought with it increasing ability to embrace in one\nview all the conflicting conditions under which he found himself... |
3,261 | 6688_book_4,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | That is one wacky chapter title, so let's explain that first. Bossuet refers to a French Bishop who was alive during the seventeenth century. And the chapter title is a reference to a book that Bossuet wrote, a history of English Protestantism. So the title is a weird way of saying that we're going to hear about a type... | [
"A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet",
"Journeying down the Rhone on a summer's day, you have perhaps felt the\nsunshine made dreary by those ruined villages which stud the banks in\ncertain parts of its course, telling how the swift river once rose,\nlike an angry, destroying god, sweeping down the f... |
3,262 | 6688_book_4,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We meet up with Maggie once again, who is in the middle of a major life crisis. She has a lot of inner turmoil and is torn between her own internal longings and the outward realities that limit her life. Mr. Tulliver is recovered and is back at work as the Mill's manager. Mr. Wakem is now his boss. Tom is working for M... | [
"The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns",
"There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies\nthe first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a\nstimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It\nis in the slow, changed life that follows; in the time when sorrow h... |
3,263 | 6688_book_4,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a visit to the mill by Mr. Wakem, Mr. Tulliver is in such a bad mood that he flips out and beats a boy that works for him. Mr. Tulliver has had fits of rage since his illness and he beat his horse one time. Maggie now lives in fear that her father will lose it and beat up his wife. Maggie tries to read one of Tom... | [
"A Voice from the Past",
"One afternoon, when the chestnuts were coming into flower, Maggie had\nbrought her chair outside the front door, and was seated there with a\nbook on her knees. Her dark eyes had wandered from the book, but they\ndid not seem to be enjoying the sunshine which pierced the screen of\njasmi... |
3,264 | 6688_book_5,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Maggie is sitting at home sewing when she sees Philip and Mr. Wakem outside. Maggie runs upstairs to avoid Mr. Wakem and wishes that she could see Philip without his father around some day. She reminisces about how she met Philip but tries to stop thinking about him by reciting some Christian hymns to herself. Maggie n... | [
"In the Red Deeps",
"The family sitting-room was a long room with a window at each end; one\nlooking toward the croft and along the Ripple to the banks of the\nFloss, the other into the mill-yard. Maggie was sitting with her work\nagainst the latter window when she saw Mr. Wakem entering the yard, as\nusual, on h... |
3,265 | 6688_book_5,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tom has been working his way up in the world of business and is doing pretty well for himself. Mr. Deane thinks that Tom has potential and has been giving him more responsibilities. Like Maggie, Tom is on a path of self-denial. Tom, however, is now a total workaholic and he's obsessed with paying off his father's debts... | [
"Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb",
"While Maggie's life-struggles had lain almost entirely within her own\nsoul, one shadowy army fighting another, and the slain shadows forever\nrising again, Tom was engaged in a dustier, noisier warfare, grappling\nwith more substantial obstacles, and gaining more ... |
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