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As the novel unfolds in the small town of Sam Dent, New York the characters reveal exactly what happened on the day of the accident—January 27, 1990—the immediate reaction of the people involved, and how each of the four characters is changed by the accident.
- The Sweet Hereafter Character Analysis - SuperSummary
The Sweet Hereafter. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in...
- The Sweet Hereafter Chapter 1: “Dolores Driscoll” Summary ...
Chapter 1 Summary: “Dolores Driscoll” The novel opens with...
- The Sweet Hereafter Character Analysis - SuperSummary
The Sweet Hereafter. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
In The Sweet Hereafter, how do characters explain the tragedy and what does Billy say about it? Why might Russell Banks have written The Sweet Hereafter using multiple points of view?
The Sweet Hereafter dramatizes the emotional impact of a school-bus accident on the injured survivors, the families of the victims, and the people of the small mountain town of Sam Dent, New...
In The Sweet Hereafter, as in his previous novels The Book of Jamaica (1980) and Affliction (1989), Banks uses multiple points of view, telling his story of a school-bus accident in a small...
Chapter 1 Summary: “Dolores Driscoll” The novel opens with Dolores Driscoll describing in first person what she saw just before the school bus she was driving, which is full of children, was involved in an accident.
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By setting the engine to a Tragedy that focuses on a horrific past and a Main Character who refuses to back down, the Dramatica theory of story predicts that Mitchell (Ian Holm) would be motivated by Chaos --namely his daughter's random and upsetting phone calls.
