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| Fear, Book 1 (Home to Street) |
The Thomas family awakens to the sound of an alarm clock in their one-room apartment. As the family dresses for the day,...
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| Fear, Book 1 (Street to Pool Room) |
Bigger meets his friend Gus in the street, and the two smoke together while watching a plane skywrite above their heads....
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| Fear, Book 1 (Theater) |
To pass time before the robbery, Jack and Bigger go to see a movie. Once in the theater, but before the film starts, Jac...
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| Fear, Book 1 (Interview with the Daltons) |
Bigger notices he still has his gun tucked inside his shirt, and he decides to take it with him to meet Mr. Dalton becau...
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| Fear, Book 1 (Out with Mary and Jan) |
Bigger is supposed to take Mary to the university, but Mary convinces him to pick up her boyfriend, Jan, instead. Mary's...
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| Fear, Book 1 (Mary's Bedroom and the Basement) |
Once Mary and Bigger arrive at the mansion, it becomes clear that Mary is too drunk to get to her room without waking th...
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| Flight, Book 2 (With the Family) |
Bigger awakens in his apartment and remembers the events of the night before. He sees Mary's purse on a chair and rushes...
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| Flight, Book 2 (Daltons' Masion, Bessie's Place) |
Bigger returns to the Daltons' house, and Peggy tells him Mary has not come downstairs. She asks why the car is in the d...
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| Flight, Book 2 (Britten's Questions) |
Bigger's first task after he returns to the Daltons' is to collect Mary's trunk from the station, because she never clai...
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| Flight, Book 2 (Ransom, Reporters, and Escape) |
The Daltons quickly discover the note under the front door. Britten, suspicious of Bigger, returns to question Peggy abo...
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| Flight, Book 2 (On the Run with Bessie) |
Bigger tells Bessie that the ransom plan is off. He explains how he killed Mary by accident and how he disposed of her b...
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| Flight, Book 2 (Evasion and Capture) |
The following day Bigger is on the move through the neighborhood. He tracks the manhunt for him by checking the newspape...
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| Fate, Book 3 (Bigger in Jail and Confession) |
For the first several days in custody, Bigger refuses to speak or eat. He collapses when he is brought to the inquest an...
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| Fate, Book 3 (Inquest and After) |
Bigger returns to the inquest, navigating through a mob hurling insults at him. One of the mob's participants hits him o...
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| Fate, Book 3 (Conversation with Max) |
A guard brings Bigger a meal and a newspaper that includes more hostile coverage of the inquest. A struggle in a nearby ...
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| Fate, Book 3 (The Trial and Max's Defense) |
As planned, Max enters a guilty plea at the trial and wants to show how Bigger's background has contributed to his crime...
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| Fate, Book 3 (Buckley's Closing and Sentence) |
After the recess Buckley presents his closing argument and urges for the death penalty. He recounts Bigger's crimes in l...
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| Fate, Book 3 (Before the Execution) |
Bigger eats and sleeps little as he awaits the carrying out of his sentence. When his family comes to visit, he sends th...
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