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| Plot Summary of Chloris and the Creeps |
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"Eight year old narrator Jenny Carpenter attempts to deal with her mother's romantic interests three years after the suicide of her father. The story is complicated by Jenny's eleven year old sister Chloris, who is still very much attached to her father, obviously disturbed by his death and by her parent's previous divorce. Chloris rebels against her mother and systematically attempts to sabotage all her romantic prospects, believing that all men (with the exception of her late father) are "creeps".
When the girls' mother marries Fidel Mancha, a Mexican artist, Jenny quickly accepts her new stepfather, but Chloris does not. Jenny struggles with her loyalty to her sister, and her own desire for a new, happy life as Chloris attempts to destroy her mother's new marriage.
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Jennifer Selk, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Family, struggle with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Step Parent(s)
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 7-10
Coping with loss of loved one(s)
Yes
Loss of...
- father
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Age:
- a kid
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
Eccentric/Smart/Dumb:
Yes
Eccentric:
- obsessed
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 2 ()
United States
Yes
City?
Yes
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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