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Introduction

• The neighborhood of Bottom is being destroyed to make room for a golf course

• This is the part of town where the Negroes lived.

• This land was given to the slaves by a farmer when they were freed.

1919

• National Suicide Day is on January 3, 1920.

• Shadrack returns home from war not knowing what to do with himself.

• Shadrack is in the hospital and is having troubles with his sanity.

• Shadrack is set 'free' from the hospital because they need the bed.

• Shadrack is arrested along the way as he appears to be intoxicated because of the weakness that results from his long hospital stay.

• The sheriff gets a farmer to drive Shadrack to his home in Bottom.

• Shadrack comes up with the idea for National Suicide Day, though the rest of the town ignores it.

1920

• Helene's grandmother wants her to stay away from the Sundown House.

• Helene is...

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