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284	543_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol Milford is a senior student of Blodgett College, at Minneapolis. She misses college for an hour and stands atop a hill near the Mississippi. Locks blown by the wind, she makes a pretty picture. She looks down the mountain at the cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul and thinks about walnut fudge and the plays of Brie...	[ "CHAPTER I", "I", "ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago,\na girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky.\nShe saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of\nskyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws\nand ...
285	543_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol is a regular invitee in the house of the Marburys who are her sister's friends. Mr. Marbury is a travelling insurance agent. They have mutual admiration for one another. On one of her visits, she meets Dr.Will Kenicott who does all the insurance examining for Mr. Marbury in the countryside. He belongs to Gopher P...	[ "CHAPTER II", "IT was a frail and blue and lonely Carol who trotted to the flat of the\nJohnson Marburys for Sunday evening supper. Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor\nand friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of\nan insurance company. They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee\nlap supper...
286	543_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Dr.Will Kennicott marries Carol after courting her for a whole year. Train No 7 carries the bride and the groom to Gopher Prairie. Carol feels distressed by what she finds around her. Though the train has plush seats, it has neither beds nor any other provision to make the passengers comfortable. The passengers are poo...	[ "CHAPTER III", "UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel. An\nirritable clank and rattle beneath a prolonged roar. The sharp scent of\noranges cutting the soggy smell of unbathed people and ancient baggage.", "Towns as planless as a scattering of pasteboard boxes on an attic floor.\nThe st...
287	543_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Kennicott informs Carol that the Clarks invite them for dinner. Carol senses his longing to get back to work and lets him go. She finds the old-fashioned black walnut bed and the imitation maple bureau in the bedroom very stifling. She tries to unpack but feels that her clothes appear flashy and extravagant in the old ...	[ "CHAPTER IV", "I", "\"THE Clarks have invited some folks to their house to meet us, tonight,\"\nsaid Kennicott, as he unpacked his suit-case.", "\"Oh, that is nice of them!\"", "\"You bet. I told you you'd like 'em. Squarest people on earth. Uh,\nCarrie----Would you mind if I sneaked down to the office for ...
288	543_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Kennicott takes Carol along on a hunting expedition. She does not like the idea of killing birds but she is delighted by his enthusiasm. She listens to his lecture on gunpowder willingly and looks at his equipment eagerly. They travel by a buggy and they take Jack Elder's dog along. The dog picks up a scent and they fo...	[ "CHAPTER V", "I", "\"WE'LL steal the whole day, and go hunting. I want you to see the\ncountry round here,\" Kennicott announced at breakfast. \"I'd take the\ncar--want you to see how swell she runs since I put in a new piston.\nBut we'll take a team, so we can get right out into the fields. Not many\nprairie c...
289	543_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol redecorates her house. She replaces the old furniture with a cozy divan and big chairs, and the old relics-the picture of the 'Doctor' and the phonograph-with artifacts, all ordered from Minneapolis. She unites the front and the back parlor by knocking off the partition. She chooses blue and yellow colors to pain...	[ "CHAPTER VI", "I", "WHEN the first dubious November snow had filtered down, shading with\nwhite the bare clods in the plowed fields, when the first small fire\nhad been started in the furnace, which is the shrine of a Gopher Prairie\nhome, Carol began to make the house her own. She dismissed the parlor\nfurnitu...
290	543_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Gopher Prairie is stirred into activities by the approaching winter. The men become busy fixing up the storm windows. Miles Bjornstam is a much-sought plumber in the winter season. He is the handy man who can fix anything. The poorer houses are banked to the lower windows with earth and manure. Snow fences are erected ...	[ "CHAPTER VII", "I", "GOPHER PRAIRIE was digging in for the winter. Through late November and\nall December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might\ndrop to twenty below, or thirty. Winter is not a season in the North\nMiddlewest; it is an industry. Storm sheds were erected at every door.\nIn ever...
291	543_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol decides to take more interest in Kennicotts work. But her attempt to get Kennicott to tell her about his work draws a blank because he does not find anything interesting enough to tell. Vida calls on her after the showdown at the Jolly Seventeen. Carol feels uneasy. Vida tells her about how the people of Gopher P...	[ "CHAPTER VIII", "\"DON'T I, in looking for things to do, show that I'm not attentive\nenough to Will? Am I impressed enough by his work? I will be. Oh, I will\nbe. If I can't be one of the town, if I must be an outcast----\"", "When Kennicott came home she bustled, \"Dear, you must tell me a lot more\nabout you...
292	543_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol is frightened by the way people criticize her. She longs to be back in the city where she could be anonymous. She wishes to go away to St. Paul for a few days but does not know how to convey her wish to Kennicott. She feels painfully self-conscious in front of people and keeps wondering if they are laughing at he...	[ "CHAPTER IX", "I", "SHE had tripped into the meadow to teach the lambs a pretty educational\ndance and found that the lambs were wolves. There was no way out between\ntheir pressing gray shoulders. She was surrounded by fangs and sneering\neyes.", "She could not go on enduring the hidden derision. She wanted ...
293	543_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Though Carol opts to stay at home to avoid the scrutiny of the ladies of the Jolly Seventeen, she longs to have a party. She hopes that Vida or Guy Pollock or Mrs. Westlake would visit her. She gets tea ready, warms up raisin cookies, sets the table and waits for someone to call on her. After a long wait she breaks dow...	[ "CHAPTER X", "THE house was haunted, long before evening. Shadows slipped down the\nwalls and waited behind every chair.", "Did that door move?", "No. She wouldn't go to the Jolly Seventeen. She hadn't energy enough to\ncaper before them, to smile blandly at Juanita's rudeness. Not today.\nBut she did want a ...
294	543_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Though Carol had been invited to the meetings of the Thanatopsis several times, she had never considered attending any. One day Mrs. Westlake invites Carol to the meeting. Mrs. Dawson has to preside over the meeting but she feels nervous. So she wants Carol to give her moral support. When Carol learns that papers on En...	[ "CHAPTER XI", "I", "SHE had often been invited to the weekly meetings of the Thanatopsis,\nthe women's study club, but she had put it off. The Thanatopsis was,\nVida Sherwin promised, \"such a cozy group, and yet it puts you in touch\nwith all the intellectual thoughts that are going on everywhere.\"", "Early...
295	543_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol takes a walk along the railroad track up to the lake and the Prairie beyond to enjoy the beauty of the spring. As she trudges along a man in a Ford car offers a lift. Carol feels the warmth of companionship in that offer which she never finds in any of her acquaintances in Gopher Prairie. She comes across Bjornst...	[ "CHAPTER XII", "ONE week of authentic spring, one rare sweet week of May, one tranquil\nmoment between the blast of winter and the charge of summer. Daily Carol\nwalked from town into flashing country hysteric with new life.", "One enchanted hour when she returned to youth and a belief in the\npossibility of be...
296	543_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol goes to Perrys house to pay a courtesy call. Not finding them at home she chances upon Guy Pollocks office. He invites her in. Carol hesitates remembering the way people gossip. Yet she goes in and finds that his office serves as the living quarters too. It is meagerly furnished. Guy is surprised that Carol shoul...	[ "CHAPTER XIII", "SHE tried, more from loyalty than from desire, to call upon the Perrys\non a November evening when Kennicott was away. They were not at home.", "Like a child who has no one to play with she loitered through the dark\nhall. She saw a light under an office door. She knocked. To the person\nwho op...
297	543_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On her way back home Carol thinks about various things, about Guy Pollock, about how devoted she is to her husband, and about what should be cooked for breakfast for the next morning. When she reaches home she finds Kennicott waiting for her. He reminds her that it is past eleven and points out that she forgot to close...	[ "CHAPTER XIV", "SHE was marching home.", "\"No. I couldn't fall in love with him. I like him, very much. But\nhe's too much of a recluse. Could I kiss him? No! No! Guy Pollock at\ntwenty-six I could have kissed him then, maybe, even if I were married\nto some one else, and probably I'd have been glib in persuad...
298	543_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol feels proud of her husband. She watches with pride as her husband is woken up in the middle of the night to attend upon a German farmers wife. Kennicott goes to do his duty unmindful of his hunger and the cold. He does not wake up Carol. Though she is awake, she is reluctant to break the spell by getting up. So s...	[ "CHAPTER XV", "THAT December she was in love with her husband.", "She romanticized herself not as a great reformer but as the wife of a\ncountry physician. The realities of the doctor's household were colored\nby her pride.", "Late at night, a step on the wooden porch, heard through her confusion\nof sleep; t...
299	543_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It is Christmas Day and Carol decorates the Christmas tree imaginatively. Kennicott feels happy with the presents given by Carol. He presents her with a diamond bar-pin. After giving the beautiful Christmas tree a cursory glance, he suggests that they should go to Jack Elders house to play. Carol feels nostalgic about ...	[ "CHAPTER XVI", "KENNICOTT was heavily pleased by her Christmas presents, and he gave her\na diamond bar-pin. But she could not persuade herself that he was much\ninterested in the rites of the morning, in the tree she had decorated,\nthe three stockings she had hung, the ribbons and gilt seals and hidden\nmessage...
300	543_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol and her circle go to the lake cottage in a bobsled. They are very happy as they sing and race. Carol races with them and when she feels tired, she rests under the comforters and feels blissfully happy. Once they reach the lake cottage, Jack Elder lights the stove and Mrs. Elder and Mrs. Clark make coffee. Vida an...	[ "CHAPTER XVII", "I", "THEY were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit January\nnight, twenty of them in the bob-sled. They sang \"Toy Land\" and \"Seeing\nNelly Home\"; they leaped from the low back of the sled to race over the\nslippery snow ruts; and when they were tired they climbed on the runne...
301	543_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A meeting of the dramatic club is held to select the play to be staged. Carol is ready to suggest Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion. Guy Pollock suggests The School for Scandal. Vida wants the farce Mc Ginerty's Mother-in-law while Raymie wants His Mother's Heart. Juanita chooses The Girl from Kankakee. Every one e...	[ "CHAPTER XVIII", "I", "SHE hurried to the first meeting of the play-reading committee. Her\njungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge\nof half-formed thought about the creation of beauty by suggestion.", "A Dunsany play would be too difficult for the Gopher Prairie\nassociation. S...
302	543_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Bjornstam marries Bea Sorenson. Though Carol persuades all her friends to attend Bjornstam 's wedding none of them do it. Though Jackson Elder promises Bjornstam that he will attend the wedding he does not do so. The Kennicotts, Guy Pollock, and the Perry's are the only people who attend the wedding. Bjornstam takes up...	[ "CHAPTER XIX", "I", "IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences\nchronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly\nSeventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely\ncontrolling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people.", "II", "Bea...
303	543_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol is furious about the inconveniences of pregnancy. She suffers from nausea. All the matrons of Gopher Prairie give her voluntary advice based on ignorance. Carol feels bad for disliking them. She is used to fighting them. Hence she feels sorry for herself for having to listen to them patiently. When her son is bor...	[ "CHAPTER XX", "I", "THE baby was coming. Each morning she was nauseated, chilly, bedraggled,\nand certain that she would never again be attractive; each twilight\nshe was afraid. She did not feel exalted, but unkempt and furious. The\nperiod of daily sickness crawled into an endless time of boredom. It\nbecame ...
304	543_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Vida Sherwin was born in the hilly Wisconsin village, where her father was a preacher. She taught in an iron-range town before she came to Gopher Prairie. Hence she considers Gopher Prairie, with its trees and the wheat prairies, to be a paradise. She is thirty-six years old and looks small and thin and sallow. But she...	[ "CHAPTER XXI", "I", "GRAY steel that seems unmoving because it spins so fast in the balanced\nfly-wheel, gray snow in an avenue of elms, gray dawn with the sun behind\nit--this was the gray of Vida Sherwin's life at thirty-six.", "She was small and active and sallow; her yellow hair was faded, and\nlooked dry...
305	543_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol wonders about the way Vida spent her time. She herself had her hands full with attending to the baby, and handling Kennicott's phone calls, yet she read every thing, whereas Vida seemed to be happy with reading only the headlines. Vida had spent most of her life in boarding houses. Hence she enjoyed every bit of ...	[ "CHAPTER XXII", "I", "THE greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or\npraise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours\na day. It is this which puzzles the long-shoreman about the clerk, the\nLondoner about the bushman. It was this which puzzled Carol in regard\nt...
306	543_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	America enters the Great European War. Raymie enrolls in the army, becomes a first lieutenant of infantry and is sent abroad. The sons of Lymn Cass, Sam Clark and Nat Hicks join the army. Both Dr. Terry Gould and Dr. Mc Ganum join the army and become captains. They are stationed at Iowa and Georgia. Kennicott too is ea...	[ "CHAPTER XXIII", "I", "WHEN America entered the Great European War, Vida sent Raymie off to an\nofficers' training-camp--less than a year after her wedding. Raymie was\ndiligent and rather strong. He came out a first lieutenant of infantry,\nand was one of the earliest sent abroad.", "Carol grew definitely af...
307	543_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol becomes more critical of Kennicott - especially after Bresnahan's visit. She finds that he does not bother to dress very well. She observes his mannerisms. She realizes that he is very boyish and that she has to manage him the way she manages Hugh. He is very homely and very dependable. Though the days are very h...	[ "CHAPTER XXIV", "I", "ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott. She recalled\na hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco,\nthe evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had\nseemed to vanish with no trace or sequence. Always she repeated that\nh...
308	543_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Kennicott wonders about how long Carol would take to get over her highbrow attitude. He broods over the fact that Carol wants him to become a poet. He knows that some women still find him attractive and wonders why he never felt tempted to go to the girls who would accept him as he is. He feels sorry that Carol who thi...	[ "CHAPTER XXV", "\"CARRIE'S all right. She's finicky, but she'll get over it. But I wish\nshe'd hurry up about it! What she can't understand is that a fellow\npractising medicine in a small town like this has got to cut out the\nhighbrow stuff, and not spend all his time going to concerts and\nshining his shoes. (...
309	543_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol takes Hugh for a walk. Hugh's interest in nature makes her forget her boredom when she is with him. They both love to go to Bea's house. Carol finds companionship in the Bjornstams. Hugh admires Bjornstam and loves Olaf. Carol feels that Olaf looks regal like a king and that Hugh appears like a common businessman...	[ "CHAPTER XXVI", "CAROL'S liveliest interest was in her walks with the baby. Hugh wanted\nto know what the box-elder tree said, and what the Ford garage said, and\nwhat the big cloud said, and she told him, with a feeling that she was\nnot in the least making up stories, but discovering the souls of things.\nThey ...
310	543_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Raymie Wutherspoon is promoted to the rank of a captain. Bjornstam sells his farm and leaves Gopher Prairie to settle in North Alberta. Many people opine that Bjornstam should have been sent to the prison. Even Kennicott believes that Bjornstam was bad. Mrs. Westlake talks sweetly and Carol tells the old Matron Bea's s...	[ "CHAPTER XXVII", "I", "A LETTER from Raymie Wutherspoon, in France, said that he had been sent\nto the front, been slightly wounded, been made a captain. From Vida's\npride Carol sought to draw a stimulant to rouse her from depression.", "Miles had sold his dairy. He had several thousand dollars. To Carol he\...
311	543_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol finds Maud to be very friendly. She feels proud of Kennicott's sympathy when he tells her that he feels sorry for Maud because Dave is very rude to her. She also learns through Maud that Nat Hicks has a new assistant who looks so feminine that he is nick named Elizabeth. He dressed up in a coat and necktie and ta...	[ "CHAPTER XXVIII", "IT WAS at a supper of the Jolly Seventeen in August that Carol heard of\n\"Elizabeth,\" from Mrs. Dave Dyer.", "Carol was fond of Maud Dyer, because she had been particularly agreeable\nlately; had obviously repented of the nervous distaste which she had\nonce shown. Maud patted her hand when...
312	543_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol takes Hugh for a walk. They meet Erik. Hugh goes hunting engines. Carol and Erik sit down to talk. He tells her about all the books that he had read and asks her for advice. She advises him to consult a dictionary for pronunciation. He tells her about his childhood. His father is a farmer. When Erik wanted to stu...	[ "CHAPTER XXIX", "SHE had walked up the railroad track with Hugh, this Sunday afternoon.", "She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping\nsullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick. For a second\nshe unreasoningly wanted to avoid him, but she kept on, and she serenely\ntalked a...
313	543_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol, the Dyers, Erik, Cy Bogart and Fern Mullins go to Lake Minniemashie. Dave plays the clown. Cy also becomes very playful. They go for a swim. Carol remains very quiet. She is dressed like how she used to dress when she was a college girl and feels very conscious. She admires Erik's Greek dance and feels that Dave...	[ "CHAPTER XXX", "FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in\nSeptember and shrieked at Carol, \"School starts next Tuesday. I've got\nto have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down\nthe lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the\ndoctor? Cy Bogar...
314	543_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On a cool night, when Kennicott is out on a country call, Erik walks into Carol's porch. Carol tells him that he cannot stay for more than five minutes. She invites him into the house because she does not want Mrs. Howland and Mrs. Bogart to watch them. She tells him to have some cake and then go home. But he wants to ...	[ "CHAPTER XXXI", "THEIR night came unheralded.", "Kennicott was on a country call. It was cool but Carol huddled on the\nporch, rocking, meditating, rocking. The house was lonely and repellent,\nand though she sighed, \"I ought to go in and read--so many things to\nread--ought to go in,\" she remained. Suddenly ...
315	543_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the Sunday after the barn dance, Carol hears Mrs. Bogarts screeching voice. She presumes that she had a row with her son. Then she sees Fern Mullins carrying a suitcase, walking up the street with her head bent low. She hears Mrs. Bogart telling her not to show her face and contaminate her house. Carol watches her g...	[ "CHAPTER XXXII", "I", "CAROL was on the back porch, tightening a bolt on the baby's go-cart,\nthis Sunday afternoon. Through an open window of the Bogart house she\nheard a screeching, heard Mrs. Bogart's haggish voice:", "\" . . . did too, and there's no use your denying it no you don't, you march\nyourself ...
316	543_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol is unable to meet Erik and feels depressed about Fern. She suddenly feels convinced that she loves Erik. She tries to remember his looks and the things he used to say. Once, when Kennicott is away in the country, Erik comes to Carol's house and asks her to go for a walk. She dresses up in her tweed coat and rubbe...	[ "CHAPTER XXXIII", "FOR a month which was one suspended moment of doubt she saw Erik only\ncasually, at an Eastern Star dance, at the shop, where, in the\npresence of Nat Hicks, they conferred with immense particularity on the\nsignificance of having one or two buttons on the cuff of Kennicott's New\nSuit. For the...
317	543_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Kennicotts travel for three and a half months and visit the Grand Canyon, Los Angeles, Pasadena and many other places. They meet the Dawsons who have settled in a bungalow at Pasadena. They return to Gopher Prairie in the first week of April. Since they had not informed anyone of their arrival and it is icy, nobody...	[ "CHAPTER XXXIV", "THEY journeyed for three and a half months. They saw the Grand Canyon,\nthe adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexico,\ntheir first foreign land. They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla to Los\nAngeles, Pasadena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions\nand ora...
318	543_chapter_35	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol tries to endure Gopher Prairie silently. She devotes herself to the housework, to Hugh, to the Red Cross work and she listens silently to Vida raging against the Germans. She helps as a volunteer nurse, when Mrs. Perry catches pneumonia. Mrs. Perry dies and the eleven remaining pioneers in Gopher Prairie attend h...	[ "CHAPTER XXXV", "SHE tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms. She\nfanatically cleaned house all April. She knitted a sweater for Hugh.\nShe was diligent at Red Cross work. She was silent when Vida raved that\nthough America hated war as much as ever, we must invade Germany and\nwipe out every man...
319	543_chapter_36	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Kennicott feels hurt that Carol does not show any interest in the town boosting campaign and that she did not appreciate Mr. Blausser. They have an argument over an organizer for the National Non Partisan League who had announced that he would address a farmer's meeting in spite of the ban on such meetings. He was caug...	[ "CHAPTER XXXVI", "KENNICOTT was not so inhumanly patient that he could continue to forgive\nCarol's heresies, to woo her as he had on the venture to California. She\ntried to be inconspicuous, but she was betrayed by her failure to glow\nover the boosting. Kennicott believed in it; demanded that she say\npatrioti...
320	543_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol finds employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance in Washington. It is not very elevating work but she feels that her contact with the anxieties of men and women all over the country was a part of vast affairs. She realizes that she can do the office work and her housework as well. She also feels that without ...	[ "CHAPTER XXXVII", "I", "SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Though the\narmistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to\nWashington, the work of the bureau continued. She filed correspondence\nall day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry. It was an\nendurance ...
321	543_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After one year's stay in Washington, Carol gets tired of her office work. One day, while having tea, she notices the young girls. They talk about bedroom farce and running up to New York and Carol feels very old and rustic. When one of the girls gives orders to the chauffeur, Carol realizes that she herself is only a G...	[ "CHAPTER XXXVIII", "SHE had lived in Washington for a year. She was tired of the office.\nIt was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not\nadventurous.", "She was having tea and cinnamon toast, alone at a small round table on\nthe balcony of Rauscher's Confiserie. Four debutantes clattered i...
322	543_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol is happy to return home. She is given a warm welcome. Juanita accepts her as a friend, while Vida cautiously watches her for her old ideas. At the mill, Champ Perry tells her that he missed her very much. She feels happy to have been missed. She is happy to see the friendly Guy Pollock. She is even ready to give ...	[ "CHAPTER XXXIX", "SHE wondered all the way home what her sensations would be. She wondered\nabout it so much that she had every sensation she had imagined. She was\nexcited by each familiar porch, each hearty \"Well, well!\" and flattered\nto be, for a day, the most important news of the community. She bustled\na...
284	543_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol Milford, a student at Blodgett College in Minneapolis, walks to a hill overlooking the Mississippi River. The narrator uses the opportunity to observe that the spirit of rebellious youth locked inside this girl is all that remains of the pioneers that once ventured across the prairie. Blodgett College is small an...	[ "CHAPTER I", "I", "ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago,\na girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky.\nShe saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of\nskyscrapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Nor was she thinking of squaws\nand ...
285	543_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol meets Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie, a solid man in his mid-thirties, at an informal dinner party given by a friend of her sister's. He admits that though he studied in the Twin Cities and has visited New York he prefers life in a small town where he can hold some sway and know the people. He encourages he...	[ "CHAPTER II", "IT was a frail and blue and lonely Carol who trotted to the flat of the\nJohnson Marburys for Sunday evening supper. Mrs. Marbury was a neighbor\nand friend of Carol's sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of\nan insurance company. They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-coffee\nlap supper...
286	543_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol and Will Kennicott marry and, after a honeymoon camping in the mountains of Colorado, take a train to Gopher Prairie. On the way Carol notices the tired and uninspired people - farm families, salesmen, workmen - who ride in the unfurnished cars. She despairs that these people are peasants with no inclination towa...	[ "CHAPTER III", "UNDER the rolling clouds of the prairie a moving mass of steel. An\nirritable clank and rattle beneath a prolonged roar. The sharp scent of\noranges cutting the soggy smell of unbathed people and ancient baggage.", "Towns as planless as a scattering of pasteboard boxes on an attic floor.\nThe st...
287	543_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Will soon departs to check on his office and Carol is disappointed at the speed with which he reenters the world of men's affairs. Overcome by the dismal house, Carol goes to the bedroom window hoping for a picturesque view. Instead she sees the clapboard side of a church and a broken Ford delivery wagon. Feeling mildl...	[ "CHAPTER IV", "I", "\"THE Clarks have invited some folks to their house to meet us, tonight,\"\nsaid Kennicott, as he unpacked his suit-case.", "\"Oh, that is nice of them!\"", "\"You bet. I told you you'd like 'em. Squarest people on earth. Uh,\nCarrie----Would you mind if I sneaked down to the office for ...
288	543_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Early the next morning Will takes Carol on a prairie chicken hunt in order to show her the countryside. Instead of his beloved car they take a horse and buggy - so they can go out in the fields. As Carol watches her husband lovingly prepare his hunting equipment she realizes with pleasure that he has a keen and creativ...	[ "CHAPTER V", "I", "\"WE'LL steal the whole day, and go hunting. I want you to see the\ncountry round here,\" Kennicott announced at breakfast. \"I'd take the\ncar--want you to see how swell she runs since I put in a new piston.\nBut we'll take a team, so we can get right out into the fields. Not many\nprairie c...
289	543_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In November, Carol has the parlor partition removed and refurnishes the large space with Oriental touches. Everyone in town takes an interest. During this time Carol makes the acquaintance of Mrs. Bogart, her backyard neighbor, who is the town's Baptist busybody and self-appointed arbiter of morality. Her fourteen year...	[ "CHAPTER VI", "I", "WHEN the first dubious November snow had filtered down, shading with\nwhite the bare clods in the plowed fields, when the first small fire\nhad been started in the furnace, which is the shrine of a Gopher Prairie\nhome, Carol began to make the house her own. She dismissed the parlor\nfurnitu...
290	543_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Winter comes and the town digs in for the season. Miles Bjornstam, the jack-of-all-trades handyman, hires himself out to anyone who needed help. Most people in town either laugh at Miles or hate him; he is a true democrat who calls everyone by their first names. He is known as "The Red Swede" due to his suspected commu...	[ "CHAPTER VII", "I", "GOPHER PRAIRIE was digging in for the winter. Through late November and\nall December it snowed daily; the thermometer was at zero and might\ndrop to twenty below, or thirty. Winter is not a season in the North\nMiddlewest; it is an industry. Storm sheds were erected at every door.\nIn ever...
291	543_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol decides to take an interest in her husband's business, but when she questions him at dinner she finds him uncommunicative and uninspired by his cases. Several days later Vida Sherwin explains, with good intentions, that the town perceives Carol as patronizing and showy. Carol is deeply affected and offended by th...	[ "CHAPTER VIII", "\"DON'T I, in looking for things to do, show that I'm not attentive\nenough to Will? Am I impressed enough by his work? I will be. Oh, I will\nbe. If I can't be one of the town, if I must be an outcast----\"", "When Kennicott came home she bustled, \"Dear, you must tell me a lot more\nabout you...
292	543_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the days that follow Carol realizes that the town is watching her. She unconsciously alters her behavior to please them. She dresses more conservatively. The boys who linger outside the drug store, smoking cigarettes and catcalling girls, anger her more than anyone else. They play pool and shoot dice, eat too many s...	[ "CHAPTER IX", "I", "SHE had tripped into the meadow to teach the lambs a pretty educational\ndance and found that the lambs were wolves. There was no way out between\ntheir pressing gray shoulders. She was surrounded by fangs and sneering\neyes.", "She could not go on enduring the hidden derision. She wanted ...
294	543_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol attends a meeting of the Thanatopsis Society and is disappointed to find that the women, instead of exploring English poetry as promised, do nothing more than offer opinionated summaries of the poet's lives. Carol does her best not to be patronizing and, after offering some suggestions, is elected a member. At th...	[ "CHAPTER XI", "I", "SHE had often been invited to the weekly meetings of the Thanatopsis,\nthe women's study club, but she had put it off. The Thanatopsis was,\nVida Sherwin promised, \"such a cozy group, and yet it puts you in touch\nwith all the intellectual thoughts that are going on everywhere.\"", "Early...
295	543_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One pleasant day Carol walks into the countryside and encounters Miles Bjornstam cooking over a fire at a gipsy camp. Miles and his partner Pete are leaving for a summer of horse trading to the west and Miles humorously extends an invitation for her to join them. She says goodbye and returns to town. The summer arrives...	[ "CHAPTER XII", "ONE week of authentic spring, one rare sweet week of May, one tranquil\nmoment between the blast of winter and the charge of summer. Daily Carol\nwalked from town into flashing country hysteric with new life.", "One enchanted hour when she returned to youth and a belief in the\npossibility of be...
302	543_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Time passes: Miles Bjornstam gets a job at the mill and marries Bea. Carol organizes their small wedding but none of the town's matriarchs attend or call on the new couple. An older woman named Oscarina replaces Bea and soon becomes a mother figure to Carol. Carol becomes a member of the library board and though she is...	[ "CHAPTER XIX", "I", "IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences\nchronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly\nSeventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely\ncontrolling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people.", "II", "Bea...
303	543_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol dislikes being pregnant and when the baby is born she initially hates it. The next day, however, she finds that she loves it with all her heart. It is a boy and they name him Hugh. For two years Carol devotes herself entirely to being a mother. During the later stages of her pregnancy, Will's relatives - Uncle Wh...	[ "CHAPTER XX", "I", "THE baby was coming. Each morning she was nauseated, chilly, bedraggled,\nand certain that she would never again be attractive; each twilight\nshe was afraid. She did not feel exalted, but unkempt and furious. The\nperiod of daily sickness crawled into an endless time of boredom. It\nbecame ...
304	543_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the age of thirty-six, Vida Sherwin had given up ever being married. Will Kennicott had flirted with her before he met Carol, but she had suspected his motives and dissuaded him, though she secretly hoped that he would renew his advances. After Will married Carol, Vida loved her as a sister and hated her as a rival....	[ "CHAPTER XXI", "I", "GRAY steel that seems unmoving because it spins so fast in the balanced\nfly-wheel, gray snow in an avenue of elms, gray dawn with the sun behind\nit--this was the gray of Vida Sherwin's life at thirty-six.", "She was small and active and sallow; her yellow hair was faded, and\nlooked dry...
305	543_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol's reading increases her world-view and she marvels at the simple contentment of the people in small towns like Gopher Prairie where dullness is made God. Vida counters that Carol's standards are too high. Vida brags that a new school building is in the works and though it took a long time and Carol didn't help at...	[ "CHAPTER XXII", "I", "THE greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or\npraise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours\na day. It is this which puzzles the long-shoreman about the clerk, the\nLondoner about the bushman. It was this which puzzled Carol in regard\nt...
306	543_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	America enters the Great War, and Vida sends Raymie to officers' training school. He graduates a lieutenant and is among the first troops sent abroad. Other people from Gopher Prairie join the Army, most of them the sons of the poor farming families. Cy Bogart talks a great deal about joining the Army but never does. I...	[ "CHAPTER XXIII", "I", "WHEN America entered the Great European War, Vida sent Raymie off to an\nofficers' training-camp--less than a year after her wedding. Raymie was\ndiligent and rather strong. He came out a first lieutenant of infantry,\nand was one of the earliest sent abroad.", "Carol grew definitely af...
307	543_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol begins to notices her husband's slovenliness and lack of imagination. She contrasts his awkward but endearing attempts to refine himself in the early days of their marriage fwith his present state of disregard. One hot evening he has his friends over to play poker. Afterward she and Will quarrel and go to bed wit...	[ "CHAPTER XXIV", "I", "ALL that midsummer month Carol was sensitive to Kennicott. She recalled\na hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco,\nthe evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had\nseemed to vanish with no trace or sequence. Always she repeated that\nh...
308	543_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Alone in his office, Will broods over his wife's expectations. Sometimes he wishes he could be with a more sympathetic woman. He muses that Carol would be shocked to learn how many married men in Gopher Prairie are able to clandestinely see other women. Maud Dyer comes to the office and suggestively discusses her back ...	[ "CHAPTER XXV", "\"CARRIE'S all right. She's finicky, but she'll get over it. But I wish\nshe'd hurry up about it! What she can't understand is that a fellow\npractising medicine in a small town like this has got to cut out the\nhighbrow stuff, and not spend all his time going to concerts and\nshining his shoes. (...
309	543_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol and Hugh spend many happy hours at the shack of Bea, Miles and Olaf Bjornstam. Hugh is thoroughly enchanted with the large Swede. Carol notes that Olaf is a patient, noble and beautiful child. Miles has established a thriving creamery on his land but he confides to Carol that he will never overcome his bad reputa...	[ "CHAPTER XXVI", "CAROL'S liveliest interest was in her walks with the baby. Hugh wanted\nto know what the box-elder tree said, and what the Ford garage said, and\nwhat the big cloud said, and she told him, with a feeling that she was\nnot in the least making up stories, but discovering the souls of things.\nThey ...
310	543_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Miles Bjornstam sells his dairy and leaves town to go to Alberta a broken man. The town blames him for his wife and child's death and bids him good riddance. Carol is depressed and, after talking to old Mrs. Flickerbaugh, who has always hated the town, she is afraid she will simply become a bitter old woman in Gopher P...	[ "CHAPTER XXVII", "I", "A LETTER from Raymie Wutherspoon, in France, said that he had been sent\nto the front, been slightly wounded, been made a captain. From Vida's\npride Carol sought to draw a stimulant to rouse her from depression.", "Miles had sold his dairy. He had several thousand dollars. To Carol he\...
311	543_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol overhears the Jolly Seventeen talking about a new young man working at Nat Hick's tailor shop. The boys in town call him "Elizabeth" because he dresses in fine clothes and puts on airs though he is only a Swedish farmer's son. Carol first sees the boy, whose real name is Erik Valborg, on a rare visit to church an...	[ "CHAPTER XXVIII", "IT WAS at a supper of the Jolly Seventeen in August that Carol heard of\n\"Elizabeth,\" from Mrs. Dave Dyer.", "Carol was fond of Maud Dyer, because she had been particularly agreeable\nlately; had obviously repented of the nervous distaste which she had\nonce shown. Maud patted her hand when...
312	543_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While on a walk with Hugh by the railroad tracks Carol encounters Erik and they sit down to talk. He tells her of his unstructured but vigilant reading and is happy when she encourages him to pursue his dream to study drawing. He wants to create something beautiful and, reminded of herself, Carol tells him that she und...	[ "CHAPTER XXIX", "SHE had walked up the railroad track with Hugh, this Sunday afternoon.", "She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping\nsullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick. For a second\nshe unreasoningly wanted to avoid him, but she kept on, and she serenely\ntalked a...
313	543_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One day in September, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, Carol and the Dyers go for a picnic by the lake. Carol is jealous when she observes Maud Dyer flirting with Erik. When Erik asks Carol to go for a boat ride she accepts to spite Maude. Erik professes his affection for her; she doesn't yield to his advances nor does she resis...	[ "CHAPTER XXX", "FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in\nSeptember and shrieked at Carol, \"School starts next Tuesday. I've got\nto have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down\nthe lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the\ndoctor? Cy Bogar...
314	543_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One night while Will is on a house-call, Erik comes to see Carol. She lets him kiss her on her eyelid and then realizes that a romance with him is not possible. He leaves and Carol notices Mrs. Westlake watching from her home across the street. The next day Kennicott tells her that Ma Westlake has been spreading confid...	[ "CHAPTER XXXI", "THEIR night came unheralded.", "Kennicott was on a country call. It was cool but Carol huddled on the\nporch, rocking, meditating, rocking. The house was lonely and repellent,\nand though she sighed, \"I ought to go in and read--so many things to\nread--ought to go in,\" she remained. Suddenly ...
315	543_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One morning Carol hears an argument coming from the Bogart home. Soon Fern emerges, downcast and carrying a suitcase. The widow Bogart follows shouting denunciations. That evening Mrs. Bogart arrives at the Kennicott's and after a great deal of self-righteous pity blurts out the story: Fern and Cy had gone to a barn da...	[ "CHAPTER XXXII", "I", "CAROL was on the back porch, tightening a bolt on the baby's go-cart,\nthis Sunday afternoon. Through an open window of the Bogart house she\nheard a screeching, heard Mrs. Bogart's haggish voice:", "\" . . . did too, and there's no use your denying it no you don't, you march\nyourself ...
316	543_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A month later Erik comes Carol's house one night when Will is out and demands that she accompany him on a walk in the country. She readily assents. As they walk they hold hands. He recites two lines of a poem he has written for her and she is flattered by what she knows to be his bad verse. A vehicle approaches and sto...	[ "CHAPTER XXXIII", "FOR a month which was one suspended moment of doubt she saw Erik only\ncasually, at an Eastern Star dance, at the shop, where, in the\npresence of Nat Hicks, they conferred with immense particularity on the\nsignificance of having one or two buttons on the cuff of Kennicott's New\nSuit. For the...
317	543_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Carol and Will travel for three and a half months. Carol manages to escape the Gopher Prairie malaise but eventually she longs for her son and they return. They leave Monterrey California on a beautiful sunny day and arrive in Gopher Prairie during a sleet storm. While they wait for a cab at the Haydock's, Juanita rela...	[ "CHAPTER XXXIV", "THEY journeyed for three and a half months. They saw the Grand Canyon,\nthe adobe walls of Sante Fe and, in a drive from El Paso into Mexico,\ntheir first foreign land. They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla to Los\nAngeles, Pasadena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions\nand ora...
320	543_chapter_37	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In Washington she finds office work at the Bureau of War Risk Management. She discovers that business women have freedom without losing domesticity and she loves the city's element of mystery. Through it all, however, she recognizes a streak of Main Street in the transplanted people from town's like Gopher Prairie who ...	[ "CHAPTER XXXVII", "I", "SHE found employment in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Though the\narmistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after her coming to\nWashington, the work of the bureau continued. She filed correspondence\nall day; then she dictated answers to letters of inquiry. It was an\nendurance ...
321	543_chapter_38	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	A year passes. She sees the Haydocks in town on business and is genuinely glad to see friends from Gopher Prairie, though she is equally glad to meet someone at the flat just in from Finland that night. Later, while speaking with a captain, she sees Percy Bresnahan. In the captain's opinion, Bresnahan is a nice enough ...	[ "CHAPTER XXXVIII", "SHE had lived in Washington for a year. She was tired of the office.\nIt was tolerable, far more tolerable than housework, but it was not\nadventurous.", "She was having tea and cinnamon toast, alone at a small round table on\nthe balcony of Rauscher's Confiserie. Four debutantes clattered i...
322	543_chapter_39	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Comforted by Gopher Prairie's familiarity Carol is neither glad nor sorry to be back. It is simply her task, like going to work, to live there. She resolves to help Vida Sherwin and takes a shift at the rest room for the farmer's wives. She begins to wear spectacles in public. In general, the town accepts her and she a...	[ "CHAPTER XXXIX", "SHE wondered all the way home what her sensations would be. She wondered\nabout it so much that she had every sensation she had imagined. She was\nexcited by each familiar porch, each hearty \"Well, well!\" and flattered\nto be, for a day, the most important news of the community. She bustled\na...
344	3285_chapters_1-2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On a beautiful June day in the early 1740s, two travelers arrive at Otsego Lake in upstate New York. One is Henry March, or Hurry Harry, about 28 years old; and the other is Nathaniel, or Natty, Bumppo -- Deerslayer -- who is several years younger than his companion. Both men proceed very cautiously because the Iroquoi...	[ "\"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,\n There is a rapture on the lonely shore.\n There is society where none intrudes,\n By the deep sea, and music in its roar:\n I love not man the less, but nature more,\n From these our interviews, in which I steal\n From all I may be, or have been befo...
345	3285_chapters_3-4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hurry Harry and Deerslayer travel in the canoe to the other end of Glimmerglass in search of Tom Hutter and the ark. On the way they discuss frankly and heatedly their respective impressions of the Indians. Hurry also teases Deerslayer about the latter's plain features and about Judith's possibly outspoken comments upo...	[ "\"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?\n And yet it irks me, the poor dappled foals,--\n Being native burghers of this desert city,--\n Should, in their own confines, with forked heads\n Have their round haunches gored.\"", "As You Like It, II.i.21-25", "Hurry Harry thought more of the beauties o...
346	3285_chapters_5-6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tom Hutter correctly analyzes the favorable situation of the ark: The Mingos cannot attack without boats, and he knows the location of the three canoes, hidden along the shore. Also, the Indians, even if they obtain boats, would be observed as they approached the ark. However, Hurry Harry and Floating Tom make plans to...	[ "\"Why, let the strucken deer go weep,\n The hart ungalled play,\n For some must watch, while some must sleep,\n Thus runs the world away.\"", "Hamlet, III.ii.271-74", "Another consultation took place in the forward part of the scow,\nat which both Judith and Hetty were present. As no danger could now\...
347	3285_chapters_7-8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Deerslayer awakens to discover that his calculations about the current of Glimmerglass and the effect of the wind have been very inaccurate: One canoe has drifted toward the shore and is soon grounded on a small sunken rock a few yards from land. Although he feels that the Mingos cannot be far away, Deerslayer must tak...	[ "\"Clear, placid Leman I Thy contrasted lake\n With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing\n Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake\n Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.\n This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing\n To waft me from distraction; once I loved\n Torn ocean's roar, but thy...
348	3285_chapters_9-10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Deerslayer heads the ark toward the rock skillfully, but the rescue of Chingachgook, while successful, is perilous. Chingachgook's leap to the safety of the ark is closely followed by the outcry of twenty pursuing Mingos. Judith saves the mission by her directions to Deerslayer as he moves the boat again to the open la...	[ "\"Yet art thou prodigal of smiles--\n Smiles, sweeter than thy frowns are stern:\n Earth sends from all her thousand isles,\n A shout at thy return.\n The glory that comes down from thee\n Bathes, in deep joy, the land and sea.\"", "Bryant, \"The Firmament,\" 11.19-24", "It may assist the reader...
349	3285_chapters_11-12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hetty's appearance in the Mingo camp surprises the Indians, but they refrain from showing their feelings too openly. Tom Hutter and Hurry Harry, still prisoners, have also adopted this Indian custom of concealing emotions; and the two white men do not betray their deep concern for Hetty's apparent plight. Hetty begins ...	[ "\"The great King of Kings\n Hath in the table of his law commanded,\n That thou shalt do no murder.\n Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hand,\n To hurl upon their heads that break his law.\"", "Richard III, I.iv.i95-97 199-200.", "That the party to which Hist compulsorily belonged was not on...
350	3285_chapters_13-14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Because the pistols are old and have not been primed or cleaned for a long time, Deerslayer suggests that he and Chingachgook practice firing them. Deerslayer proves his superior marksmanship, but his pistol explodes accidentally -- exactly what he had feared because of Hutter's long neglect of the loaded weapons. No o...	[ "\"An oaken, broken, elbow-chair;\n A caudle-cup without an ear;\n A battered, shattered ash bedstead;\n A box of deal without a lid;\n A pair of tongs, but out of joint;\n A back-sword poker, without point;\n A dish which might good meat afford once;\n An Ovid, and an old\n Concordance.\"",...
351	3285_chapters_15-16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Deerslayer explains privately to Tom Hutter what has been done with the chest; and the latter calmly accepts the explanation about the discovery of the key, the searching of the chest's contents, and the use of the chess pieces for ransom. Hutter is rather relieved that the whole chest was not searched. When they rejoi...	[ "\"As long as Edwarde rules thys lande,\n Ne quiet you wylle ye know;\n Your sonnes and husbandes shall be slayne,\n And brookes with bloode shall 'flowe.'", "\"You leave youre geode and lawfulle kynge,\n Whenne ynne adversity;\n Like me, untoe the true cause stycke,\n And for the true cause dye...
352	3285_chapters_17-18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Deerslayer eludes his pursuers so that Chingachgook and Hist can get into the canoe. By giving the canoe a quick and powerful shove into the lake, Deerslayer provides his friends with their chance to reach safety. His own escape is endangered by a Mingo who seizes him, and Deerslayer loses any advantage in the fight by...	[ "\"There, ye wise saints, behold your light, your star,\n Ye would be dupes and victims and ye are.\n Is it enough? or, must I, while a thrill\n Lives in your sapient bosoms, cheat you still?\"", "Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh, \"The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan\"", "The fire, the canoe, and the spring, ne...
353	3285_chapters_19-20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the ark Hurry Harry and Tom Hutter have been awakened by the returning Chingachgook and the rescued Hist with the news that Deerslayer is a prisoner of the Mingos. Neither one of the two white men greatly regrets Deerslayer's misfortune: Hurry Harry is jealous of Judith's attentions to his rival, and Tom Hutter rese...	[ "\"Stand to your arms, and guard the door--all's lost\n Unless that fearful bell be silenced soon.\n The officer hath miss'd his path, or purpose,\n Or met some unforeseen and hideous obstacle.\n Anselmo, with thy company proceed\n Straight to the tower; the rest remain with me.\"", "Byron, Marino ...
354	3285_chapters_21-22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tom Hutter, close to death, confesses to the two sisters that he is not their real father. This confession pleases Judith who has always resented Tom Hutter's conduct, but Hetty is saddened by the tragic end of the man who protected her for so many years. Tom Hutter tells Judith and Hetty that they will find proof in t...	[ "\"Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,\n And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him;\n But nothing he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on,\n In the grave where a Briton has laid him.\"", "Charles Wolfe, \"The Burial of Sir John Moore,\" vi.", "The reader must imagine the horror that daughters wou...
355	3285_chapters_23-24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The mood is very glum when Deerslayer rejoins the group on the ark, and he delays explaining his mission until the end of the meal. Deerslayer receives a gift from Judith: Tom Hutter's gun, Killdeer. He explains the terms which the Mingos offer: Chingachgook can pass safely through the blockade to return to his tribe's...	[ "\"The winde is great upon the highest hilles;\n The quiet life is in the dale below;\n Who tread on ice shall slide against their willes;\n They want not cares, that curious arts should know.\n Who lives at ease and can content him so,\n Is perfect wise, and sets us all to schoole:\n Who hates th...
356	3285_chapters_25-26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The sorrowful group gathers in the morning for what seems to be a final meeting. Chingachgook and Hist are happy in their love for each other, but they are obviously depressed about their friend's departure, and his fate. Deerslayer and Judith still try to convince each other of their respective viewpoints. Deerslayer ...	[ "\"But, mother, now a shade has past,\n Athwart my brightest visions here,\n A cloud of darkest gloom has wrapt,\n The remnant of my brief career!\n No song, no echo can I win,\n The sparkling fount has died within.\"", "Margaret Davidson, \"To my Mother,\" 11. 7-12.", "Hist and Hetty arose with...
357	3285_chapters_27-28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The Mingos are both surprised and admiring that Deerslayer has returned at the exact time he promised. But there is also a division on strategy among the Indians. Some of the Mingos had insisted that he would never honor his pledge to come back, and this quarrel had divided the tribe into factions. When Deerslayer appe...	[ "\"Thou hast been busy, Death, this day, and yet\n But half thy work is done! The gates of hell\n Are thronged, yet twice ten thousand spirits more\n Who from their warm and healthful tenements\n Fear no divorce; must, ere the sun go down,\n Enter the world of woe!\"--", "Southey, Roderick, the La...
358	3285_chapters_29-30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Tied securely to a tree, Deerslayer is put to the tests of the tomahawk and the rifle. The Mingos aim at him with these respective weapons only to frighten Deerslayer or to graze him slightly. Their real purpose is a test of their own individual skills as warriors, and they also hope to break the prisoner's will by mak...	[ "\"The ugly bear now minded not the stake,\n Nor how the cruel mastiffs do him tear,\n The stag lay still unroused from the brake,\n The foamy boar feared not the hunter's spear:\n All thing was still in desert, bush, and briar:\"", "Thomas Sackville; \"The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham,\"\n ...
359	3285_chapters_31-32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the following day, Glimmerglass and its shore show no visible traces of the past battle because Captain Warley, in charge of the soldiers, has ordered all the bodies to be buried. Rivenoak has been taken a prisoner, but he behaves in defeat like a true warrior and proud chief. Hetty has been accidentally wounded dur...	[ "\"The flower that smiles to-day\n To-morrow dies;\n All that we wish to stay,\n Tempts and then flies:\n What is this world's delight?\n Lightning that mocks the night,\n Brief even as bright.\"", "Shelley, \"Mutability,\" II. i-v.", "The picture next presented, by the point of land that the...
360	730_chapters_1-7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Oliver Twist is born into a workhouse, but seems unlikely to survive at first. He manages to catch his breath, however, but his mother is not so lucky. After giving him one kiss, she dies. Mrs. Thingummy tells the doctor that she had been brought to the workhouse the night before, after collapsing in the street, so nob...	[ "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons\nit will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will\nassign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns,\ngreat or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on\na day and date which I need n...
361	730_chapters_8-14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	While on the road, Oliver decides to make London his destination - according to a sign post, it is seventy miles away. His first day he manages to walk twenty miles, with only a crust of bread and little else. He keeps walking, getting weaker along the way and having to beg for food and water. After a week of walking, ...	[ "Oliver reached the stile at which the by-path terminated; and once more\ngained the high-road. It was eight o'clock now. Though he was nearly\nfive miles away from the town, he ran, and hid behind the hedges, by\nturns, till noon: fearing that he might be pursued and overtaken. Then\nhe sat down to rest by the s...
362	730_chapters_15-22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Fagin goes to see Bill Sikes, who is busy beating his dog, at a pub, to give him his cut of some profits. Sikes learns that Nancy is in the pub too, and sends for her. She starts to tell him about Oliver, but Fagin cuts her off, and soon she leaves with Sikes. At the same time, Oliver has gotten a little lost on his wa...	[ "In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest part of\nLittle Saffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light\nburnt all day in the winter-time; and where no ray of sun ever shone in\nthe summer: there sat, brooding over a little pewter measure and a\nsmall glass, strongly impregna...
363	730_chapters_23-29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mrs. Corney, matron of the workhouse where Oliver was born, is just about to sit down for a cup of tea when Mr. Bumble appears. Mr. Bumble explains the concept of out-of-door relief, which is to give the poor people exactly what they don't want so that they won't come back. Mr. Bumble gives Mrs. Corney the port wine or...	[ "The night was bitter cold. The snow lay on the ground, frozen into a\nhard thick crust, so that only the heaps that had drifted into byways\nand corners were affected by the sharp wind that howled abroad: which,\nas if expending increased fury on such prey as it found, caught it\nsavagely up in clouds, and, whir...
364	730_chapters_30-34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The doctor leads the ladies up to Oliver. They are shocked by how young and gentle-looking he is. Rose cannot believe he was willingly the associate of robbers, regardless of the doctor's assurances that a pleasant outside does not necessarily mean a pleasant inside, and says that even if he was, it must have been beca...	[ "With many loquacious assurances that they would be agreeably surprised\nin the aspect of the criminal, the doctor drew the young lady's arm\nthrough one of his; and offering his disengaged hand to Mrs. Maylie,\nled them, with much ceremony and stateliness, upstairs.", "'Now,' said the doctor, in a whisper, as he...
365	730_chapters_35-40	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Everyone comes to Oliver's cry, and Harry leads the chase after Fagin and the other man. They find no trace of them, and so think that perhaps Oliver dreamt it, but Oliver is sure that it was real. They continue to search and make inquiries in town over the next few days, but nothing comes of it, and so it is forgotten...	[ "When the inmates of the house, attracted by Oliver's cries, hurried to\nthe spot from which they proceeded, they found him, pale and agitated,\npointing in the direction of the meadows behind the house, and scarcely\nable to articulate the words, 'The Jew! the Jew!'", "Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what ...
366	730_chapters_41-45	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Rose tries to decide upon the best thing to do with the information she has been given. She does not think she should tell Mr. Losberne because of his impetuosity, and she doesn't think that she should tell Mrs. Maylie, because her first reaction will be to tell Mr. Losberne. After a difficult night, she decides to go ...	[ "Her situation was, indeed, one of no common trial and difficulty. While\nshe felt the most eager and burning desire to penetrate the mystery in\nwhich Oliver's history was enveloped, she could not but hold sacred the\nconfidence which the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed,\nhad reposed in her, as a ...
367	730_chapters_46-50	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nancy goes, with Noah following, to London Bridge, where she waits. At two minutes past midnight, Rose and Mr. Brownlow get out of a carriage, and walk towards the bridge. Nancy sees them, and immediately heads towards them. Nancy tells them she can't talk in the open, and leads them to a staircase going down to the ri...	[ "The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven, as two figures\nemerged on London Bridge. One, which advanced with a swift and rapid\nstep, was that of a woman who looked eagerly about her as though in\nquest of some expected object; the other figure was that of a man, who\nslunk along in the deepest shadow h...
368	730_chapters_51-53	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Two days later, Oliver, Mrs. Maylie, Rose, Mrs. Bedwin, Mr. Losberne, and Mr. Brownlow travel toward the town where Oliver was born. As they go, Oliver wishes to see Dick again, and to be able to make him as happy as he is now. They arrive at the town's chief hotel, where Mr. Grimwig is waiting for them, and everything...	[ "The events narrated in the last chapter were yet but two days old, when\nOliver found himself, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in a\ntravelling-carriage rolling fast towards his native town. Mrs. Maylie,\nand Rose, and Mrs. Bedwin, and the good doctor were with him: and Mr.\nBrownlow followed in a post-chaise...
369	730_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	It's a short first chapter, and gets right to the point: the scene is a small town in England, and the novel opens in the early nineteenth century . Oliver is born in a workhouse in a town called Mudfog , and is described as a "new burden upon the parish" . . After kissing Oliver with "cold white lips," Oliver's mother...	[ "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons\nit will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will\nassign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns,\ngreat or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on\na day and date which I need n...
370	730_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Oliver gets sent out to be "farmed" because there isn't a wet nurse to be found at the workhouse after his mother dies. Dickens treats us to a scathingly ironic description of the wretched conditions at the baby farm run by Mrs. Mann. Now, allow us to interrupt our scheduled program for a Historical Context Lesson: "ba...	[ "For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic\ncourse of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The\nhungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported\nby the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish\nauthorities inquired with dignity of...
371	730_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Oliver's punishment for asking for more is to be locked in a dark room for a week. Dickens suggests that Oliver is so depressed by his solitary confinement that the "gentleman in the white waistcoat" could have been proven right if Oliver had had a pocket-handkerchief with which to hang himself. Of course he doesn't ha...	[ "For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of\nasking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and\nsolitary room to which he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of\nthe board. It appears, at first sight not unreasonable to suppose,\nthat, if he had entertained a becomi...
372	730_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The parish board decides to send Oliver to sea as a cabin boy; "the probability being, that the skipper would either flog him to death, in a playful mood, some day after dinner, or knock his brains out with an iron bar" . Sounds like a blast. On his way back from asking about possible places for Oliver on a ship, Mr. B...	[ "In great families, when an advantageous place cannot be obtained,\neither in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy, for the\nyoung man who is growing up, it is a very general custom to send him to\nsea. The board, in imitation of so wise and salutary an example, took\ncounsel together on the expediency ...
373	730_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Oliver is understandably depressed in his new surroundings--he's in the dark and surrounded by coffins in a strange place--but he does finally go to sleep. He's woken up by kicking at the shop door. The owner of the kicking feet promises to "whop" Oliver when he comes in, and introduces himself as "Mister Noah Claypole...	[ "Oliver, being left to himself in the undertaker's shop, set the lamp\ndown on a workman's bench, and gazed timidly about him with a feeling\nof awe and dread, which many people a good deal older than he will be\nat no loss to understand. An unfinished coffin on black tressels,\nwhich stood in the middle of the sho...
374	730_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Business is good for Mr. Sowerberry. Of course, this means that a lot of people are dying, which isn't really a good thing. But Oliver is getting a lot of experience attending funerals, because Mr. Sowerberry wants Oliver to "acquire that equanimity of demeanor so essential to a finished undertaker" . In other words, h...	[ "The month's trial over, Oliver was formally apprenticed. It was a nice\nsickly season just at this time. In commercial phrase, coffins were\nlooking up; and, in the course of a few weeks, Oliver acquired a great\ndeal of experience. The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious\nspeculation, exceeded even his most ...

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