"A Problem From Hell:" America and the Age of Genocide | Overview & Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Chapter Abstracts

Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.

Preface Abstract

* In the preface, Power explains why she wrote A Problem from Hell. She wrote the book after working as a journalist in Bosnia and witnessing the Serbs' takeover of Sarajevo.
* Power's experience in Bosnia caused her to research other twentieth-century genocides and, specifically, America's response to genocide.
* She found...
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