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During the climax, G, MA, and Bootsie and her daughter(Mary Alice's cats) hide in the cellar from the tornado which was overhead
... and after which, using fox money, G buys MA and her brother roundtrip tickets to Chicago for a Christmas visit to their parents. Next chapter, is Valentine's we have the introduction of R (MA's future husband), who C immediately declares as her own. MA and Ina Ray hatch a plan to make fake Valentine's signed by R to anger C, which of course succeeds. Meanwhile G and MA make hundreds upon hundreds of cherry tarts for the DAR Washington Tea at which Effie Wilcox discovers that the banker's wife is her long lost sister and that they're Burdicks. Following that occurrence G gets a renter, Arnold Green. MA then has a "study" date with R which is interrupted by Arnold Green's muse wearing only a snake running from the attic to the town screaming on the top of her lungs. The final chapter is covered by the video but only the beginning...
I found this book quite interesting and feel it
deserved it's Newbery Medal. This book was
very hard to write a plot peak for this book
because of it's many plots. But I am glad I did
and not just for the reasons you might think.
When MA first arrives she is immediately enrolled in high school where she runs into B who charges MA a whole dollar and follows her home. (note: soda for a dime was considered expensive then) G then proceeded to set B's horse loose with her shoes forcing B to walk home barefoot. The next chapter is Vittles and Vengeance (Halloween; covered in video, antagonist is A). After that it was off to Armistice Day when G made a fortune selling burgoo which she proceeded to donate to Mrs Abernathy, whose son had been gassed and shot up in WWI. Then we skip to the Christmas program in which MA is the plays the Virgin Mary and B's illigitimate baby sister steals the show by replacing a nonliving baby doll... (TBC)
Most of this story is the rising action. Though it was hard I found the climax. I see a plot peak as a solar system. The climax is the sun and the rest of the story is the planets. In solar systems based on this book a different sun means different planets. So this slide was mainly for Mrs. Keesee as you can see by now an excuse in advance for the differences between mine and any other person's Prezi.
The after of the tornado is covered by the video except the for when MA is told she can go home because her parents got their jobs back, but she doesn't want to because she loves her crazy life with G. In the end she returns to Chicago under the promise that she can return any time. And boy does she. In the epilogue MA discovers her ablities as a writer and becomes a reporter due to her "Newsy Notes" which she wrote in Ch. 4. In 1945 she married R in G's house. And they lived happily ever after.
In this sequel thing get crazy for Bob Barnhart as his neighbor is G. First bullies hang him off the roof of G's privy and he hangs around till G comes around and frees him. Next his father holds a funeral ceremony for a long deceased Kickapoo princess who was buried in G's backyard. Then it's Christmas time when G calls Bob to help her "find" a Christmas tree for a steal. After that she helps Bob find a Christmas tree to call his own
The Great Depression had caused MA's dad to lose his job. Because of that MA had to stay with trigger-happy G in her little hillbilly town so to ease her parents money problem back in Chicago. While the book was a bit ziggy-zaggy on it's problem (a new problem each chapter), the recurring theme is the Great Depression's affect on America and more specifically, the Roosevelt recession of 1937, showing that the times themselves are the heart of the problem