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Plot Summary of The Great Teen Fruit War, A 1960's Novel
"Goose Restuccio, son of a Mafia kingpin joins a gang, the Reds. An enemy gang (the Blues) captures Goose and makes him have forced sex with a black girl, who becomes pregnant. The Reds and the black girl's friends align against the Blues and a greaser gang The Ramrodders."
John Wiessner, Resident Scholar


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Review Analysis of The Great Teen Fruit War, A 1960's Novel
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Plot
Tone of book? - upbeat
Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Crime & Police story Yes
Story of - gang conflict
Kind of sex: - rape
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Main char. serviced by prostitute? Yes
Age group of kid(s) in story: - high school
Something wrong upstairs/downstairs? - searching for identity/meaning
Parents/lack of parents problem? - rebelling against parent's expectations
Wild kid(s)? - committing crimes
Taboo sex story? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - eccentric - obsessed - mentally ill - deluded - emotionally unstable - wild
Ethnicity/Nationality - Italian
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - student
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb: Yes
Eccentric: - obsessed - deluded - wild - eccentric - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 7 (a good amount)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Forest? Yes
Farm/Ranch? Yes
Farm/Ranch: - farm - lot of descript of crop raising
Small town? Yes
Small town people: - dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle - hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Misc setting - moving train

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to torture
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big B's) - descript. of female anat. (the big V) - descript. of nude males (the big P) - rape/molest (yeech!)
Lot of foul language? Yes
Unusual Style: - a lot of play on words - a lot of flashback and forwards - a lot of stream of consciousness - No single main character? - written like a journal/diary/letters
Is this an e-book? Yes
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