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Crooked Letter crooked Letter chapter 1

Crooked Letter crooked Letter chapter 1

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Crooked Letter crooked Letter chapter 1

Hanna Kienle

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11/12/13

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Setting: Mississippi Chapter 1

Crooked Letter crooked letter The setting: State Mississippi nature -river, kudzu - lots of fields -dry area economy poorest state in America ongoing industrialization (slow process) economy based on agriculture infrastructure -natural area, poor (Alzheimer's) - father is dead infrastructure Family: -mother in old people's home (mostly Hack peoplel HW: read.first chapter and collect information.on: his chickens - lived in a chicken per Mississippi music -blues and jazz are an important part of culture his farm: muddy driveway, bobwire fence sodden green field next house 1 mile away near the woods - not a strong connection to place feels like caretaker WA -> cares about them. - built a head-high moveable cage with an open floor -> good weather. cage pushed on a different field seem to replace company people segregated community with regard to skincolour and prosperity high rate of unemployment - 40% Afr. A. 50% white A. konservative; religious Larry Ott: - 41 years old, single lives in Mississipi greyhair, poor Shot by a man with mask owns a carshop, is a mechanic not allowed to carry gun bec. of his past a suspect in a different case, 25 years Zombie mask history -confederate state once -supported slavery -Segregated State after 1865 - KKK founded ago but not found guilty likes reading Sticks to his daily routine his maibox: -tilted + always full Larry owns this mask since he was a kid I worn by the "murdered" I hated by parents his only friend - Wallace Stringfellow Cindy Walker -was kidnapped 25 years ago - he was a suspect Rutherford girl still missing. weather rainy, cloudy, storm time of the year early September his room - clean + tidy -...