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| Plot Summary of Joe College |
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"Danny is a Yale junior attending the university on scholorship. While most of his friends are from rich families, Danny is the son of a lunch truck driver in cenral New Jersey. As spring break approaches all that Danny has to look forward to is driving his father's truck while his father has minor surgery, and breaking up once and for all with his hometown girlfriend, Cindy. Danny also is in love with Polly, a classmate who is having an affair with a professor.
But when he gets home, Cindy announces that she is pregnant, and Danny announces that she's pregnant, and his father's truck is being threatened by the "lunch monsters", a mob run lunch business."
fran laniado, Resident Scholar
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Our unique search engine provides a wealth of detail about books by breaking them down into many different literary elements, all of which are searchable (click here).
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- humorous
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Life of a profession:
- businessman, good overcoming bad ones
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Job/Profession/Status story
Yes
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- college
Loving/sexing?
- bun/oven
Main Character
Gender
- Male
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?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
Lot of foul language?
Yes
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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