Guilt | 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.

Part I, Chapters One through Six Abstract

* Attorneys Mark Dooher and Wes Farrell are having lunch and discussing their lives. Wes and his wife, Lydia, are divorcing and Mark says he cannot divorce his wife, Sheila, because of his role as attorney for the Catholic Archdiocese.
* Later on Mark sees a junior partner...
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