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Plot Summary of Web of Dreams
"When Leigh's mother Jillian gets divorced from her father and marries the millionare Tony Tatterton, Leigh is desperately unhappy. She moves into Farthinggale Manor to live amongst riches and servants, but she still feels lonely. Leigh runs away because Tony Tattorton raped her and her mother refused to believe her, and meets Luke Casteel on her way to Atlanta. She goes to West Virginia with him, where they live in his drafty, cold shack in the Willies mountain range. She gives birth there, and names the baby Heaven, just before she dies....."
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Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Poverty, surviving Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Step Parent(s)
Kind of sex: - rape
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Taboo sex story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - a teen
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 ()
City? Yes
City: - Boston

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - descript. of female anat. (the big B's) - rape/molest (yeech!)
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