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Plot Summary of Re-creations
"College student Cornelia Copley is called home just before commencement to care for her sick mother. When she arrives home, she is stunned to learn her family has moved from their comfortable home to a plain, frame house with threadbare furnishings.
She also learns that her family has scrimped and sacrified to keep her in college. Cornelia bravely assumes the new role of caregiver and homemaker. She struggles with her desire for a brighter, broader world even as she learns to bake bread, to cook, and to clean.
More than her family's physical surroundings need care and repair. A chance meeting with a kind elderly woman ends with Cornelia meeting the woman's son, Arthur. As the story progress, Cornelia and Arthur move not only closer together but find their way to the Christian faith."

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Re-creations
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Plot
Tone of book? - very sensitive (sigh)
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Poverty, surviving Yes
Kind of living: - general poverty story
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - religious issues
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - 20's-30's
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 - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - society
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 (an average amount)
United States Yes
City? Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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