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Plot Summary of So Help Me God
"Lucy Baines Brady, a seemingly perfect Texas teenager, is raped by her boyfriend whom she met in her church's youth group. She nearly dies from complications from an abortion performed by an overworked doctor. During rehabilitation, her wealthy aunt introduces her to renowned televangelist, Thomas Jeremiah Luther, who decides that Lucy's malpractice case is the perfect way to close the doors of abortion clinics across the country, and for him to seize control of the nation's political right wing. He pays millions to J. Robert Tisdale, the best plaintiff lawyer in the country, to accomplish his dual purposes but fails to recoginze that the doctor will also retain an attorney who matches Tisdale's every move. What begins as a trial about medical malpractice spins into one about human life itself and when it begins. "
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Review Analysis of So Help Me God
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Plot

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




Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Religious overtones? Yes
Legal Thriller Yes
Legal Plotlets - civil suit to get justice

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - a lawyer creature
Age: - 40's-50's
How much violence does he/she use? - none
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 - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - a lawyer creature
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
Motive of antagonist - power
The antagonists are: - lawyer creatures
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 - average physique

Setting
United States Yes

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
How many deaths? - hundreds or more
Sex Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - descript. of other female areas - rape (yeech!)
A lot of techno jargon? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript
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