Cat's Cradle | 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.

Chapters 1-4 Abstract

* John determines to write a non-fiction book entitled The Day the World Ended about the day the nuclear bohttp://www.bookrags.com/eic/book_formate/plansFRM.php?bID=492&status=W&version=#
Chapters 1-4mb was dropped on Hiroshima.
* John travels to Ilium, New York to meet the family of the deceased Dr. Felix Hoenikker.
* John learns that Frank Hoenikker, the...
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