She's Come Undone | 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, 2 and 3 Abstract

* A television is delivered to the house that Dolores and her parents are living in. The year is 1956.
* Dolores is a 4-year-old girl who is at first afraid of the television but is later entranced by it.
* The relationship between Dolores' parents (a...
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