Buried Child Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 95 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Buried Child Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 95 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Act 1

• The setting and the family is introduced. The story takes place in a farmhouse in Illinois.
• Dodge is the owner of the farm and the house. He is married to Halie. He is a drunken, ill, argumentative man who covers his body most of the time with a blanket.
• Halie, Dodge's wife, seems to be a caretaker, while voicing religious piety and self-righteousness.
• It will be discovered that Halie is not a caring wife. She is having an affair with her minister, Father Dewis.
• Father Dewis is the minister of the church. He proves to be is ineffective at solving the problems of this dysfunctional family.
• Halie has a dead son named Ansel, whom she considers to be the most promising of her sons.
• Halie dislikes the Catholic and blames Ansel's marriage to one for his death.

• She refers to them as the mob.
• Tilden is one...

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