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| Plot Summary of Boone's Lick |
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"Shay is a 15 year old boy living in Boone's Lick, Missouri, in the wild, wild west days. Wild Bill Hickok is a frequent visitor as other wild characters. One day "Ma" gets it in her head to take a wagon train out to Wyoming to hunt for her wandering husband. Why they are going, no one knows but Ma. With her are her sons Shay and G.T. and daughter Marcy and brother in law Seth. The story is told from Shay's point of view."
BethG, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Boone's Lick |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 19th century
Family, loving relations
Yes
Special relationship with
- mother
Exploring into the wild
Yes
kind of story
- surviving natural elements
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 6 (an above average amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
Prairie?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Unusual Style:
- a lot of play on words
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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