Deliverance | 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.

Before Abstract

* Ed Ballinger pores over a map of the Cahulawassee River.
* At lunch, Lewis Medlock persuades Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe, and Drew Ballinger to accompany him on a whitewater rafting trip down the Cahulawassee River.
* The river will soon be dammed up, and such trips will no longer be possible. (read more)