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| Plot Summary of The Rain Catchers |
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"Fourteen year old Grayling lives in her grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and where women meet to tell their personal histories. The women take care of each other and of Grayling, protecting her from the story of her own past.
Over the course of her fourteenth summer, Grayling falls in love, deals with the death of a loved one and finally learns the details of her own story when she travels to visit her mother and to find out about the history of her father.
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Jennifer Selk, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of The Rain Catchers |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Internal struggle/realization?
Yes
Struggle over
- search for family/history
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Age 11-14
Coping with loss of loved one(s)
Yes
Loss of...
- father
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- high school
Parents/lack of parents problem?
- Momma gone
Loving/sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
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
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 6 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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