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Plot Summary of Gone Fishin'
"“Gone Fishin” takes Easy Rawlins back to 1939 in Houston.   His friend Mouse persuades him to drive to Pariah, Texas to get some money from his estranged stepfather for his impending marriage. En route they pick up a young man and his teenage girlfriend who are running from the law and Mouse offers to help them hide with a woman he knows in Pariah.

After Easy gets sick, Mouse tricks the young man into helping him coerce his stepfather into giving him the money.   They imprison him in a basket, but he escapes, kills the young man and almost kills Mouse as well, but is prevented by Easy's sudden arrival. Easy knocks him over with a body block, and the next thing he knows the man is dead.

Mouse and Easy return to Houston, Mouse gets married. "

Jack Goodstein, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Gone Fishin'
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%




Tone of story - depressing/sad
Time/era of story: - 1930's-1950's
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets: - search for gems/treasure/money
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - unemployed
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a little
Ethnicity/Race - Black
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - physically sick

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - farmer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some
Motive of antagonist - money/treasure
The antagonists are: - communists
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Texas

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
How many deaths? - 2
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - actual description of sex
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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Walter Mosley Resident Scholar Profiles

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