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| Plot Summary of New Orleans Legacy |
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"Mary MacAlistair is a young teenage girl searching for her New Orleans family. Just before graduation in a girl's Pennsylvania boarding school, Mary receives a box from her father which has been in her mother's family for years. Enclosed are items such as gloves, an Indian arrowhead, and a fan. However, the next day, Mary gets shocking news: her father has died, and her mother is really her stepmother, who doesn't want Mary as a daughter anymore.
Mary discovers that her real mother came from New Orleans. So, Mary packs her bags, and gets on a boat for New Orleans. Mary is a very naive young girl, and gets taken advantage off. On the boat, she meets Miss Rose, who promises to take care of her in New Orleans. It turns out that Miss Rose is a madam and runs a whore house. Miss Rose tries to turn Mary into a prostitute, but Mary escapes. She runs into a cathedral and seeks the help of nuns in a convent.
Mary explains her story to the nuns, and finds out that the box that belonged to her mother is called a caskett. A caskett is a box of history for a family, which contains items pertaining to events that happens in that person's family. Celeste Sazerac promises to get the caskett back from Miss Rose and help find Mary's family. But, when Celeste finds out that Mary is actually her niece, she keeps the caskett for herself and lies to Mary & to the nuns. Mary is turned over to a family to become a companion to their daughter, Jeanne. Mary still believes that Celeste is trying to find her family. But Celeste wants to keep Mary out of the way.
When Jeanne's brother's friend, Valmont St. Brevin, finds out that Mary is a companion to Jeanne, he tells Jeanne's father that Mary used to be a whore. (Valmont had seen Mary on the boat with Miss Rose, and Valmont has visited that whore house.) Mary is kicked out and left to fend for herself on the streets. The ironic part is that Mary is in love with Valmont, until Valmont uses her. From that point on, Mary ceases to become trusting and innocent. She forgets about finding her family, and becomes hard and self-reliant. Eventually, she seeks revenge for all those who have mistreated her in New Orleans, including Valmont St. Brevin."
Marie Morris, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of New Orleans Legacy |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- upbeat
Time/era of story
- 19th century
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- struggling to earn a living to survive
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- search for family/history
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- orphan story
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of hetero sex
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
Unusual Style:
- a lot of stream of consciousness
- No single main character?
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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