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Plot Summary of My Brilliant Career
"Sibylla is a wild and clever 16 year old whose family has been struck by poverty in late 1800s rural Australia. She dreams of writing a book and is sent by her parents to live with her Grandmother in lush country where she lives the good life, but retains her wild side. Here she meets and falls in love with Harold Beecham, a neighbour, and the book follows their ups and downs. Her family need her to work, however, so she is sent to a redneck farm to teach kids, and eventually back to her drought stricken home, where she finally makes decisions about her life."
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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 19th century
Poverty, surviving Yes
Kind of living: - farm poverty - general poverty story
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Outside culture (society) - Australian (mate!)
If story of urban/rural... - Small town life
Ethnic/regional/gender life Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - scholar
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - eccentric - wild
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - farmer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - bulging muscles

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 6 ()
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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