Cold Comfort Farm | 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.

Chapter 1 Abstract

* COLD COMFORT FARM is set primarily in Sussex, England in the 1930s.
* Chapter One introduces Flora Poste, whose parents have recently died, leaving her with only one hundred pounds a year.
* Flora goes to stay with her childhood friend, Mary Smiling, a wealthy widow, in London.
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