What is the summary of the book Chains?
“Chains” is the story of thirteen-year-old slave Isabel’s journey to discover her inner strength and fight for her freedom amidst the depravity of slavery and the upheaval of the Revolutionary War that divided America. The novel opens on the day of Miss Mary Finch’s funeral.
What is Chapter 1 of Chains about?
Chapter one is the chapter in which you meet most of the main characters that you will get to know through out the novel. In Chains, we meet Isabel and her little sister, Ruth. We learn that their mother, Dinah, died of smallpox. The two girls’ owner, Miss Mary Finch, died and she set them free in her will.
What was chapter 5 about in Chains?
When Madam asks which one of the girls was laughing at her, Isabel quickly takes the blame, and Madam smacks her cheek harder than Isabel has ever been hit before in her life. The Great Underwear Chest Debacle is resolved and it’s decided that the Locktons can return home with it.
What happened in Chapter 7 of chains?
Isabel has to walk about a mile from the water pump back to the Locktons’ house. The water bucket is heavy, and her arms are killing her by the time she arrives. When Curzon points out her new home, she forgets about the pain.
What happens in chapter 12 of chains?
Madam faints after Master Lockton is taken away. Becky is concerned, and she sends Isabel to fetch Lady Seymour. After memorizing Becky’s instructions, Isabel wends her way through the streets of New York and soon finds the right house.
What happened in chapter 6 of chains?
The boy, Curzon, tells Isabel to follow him, but he moves so quickly she cannot keep up. Eventually she calls out, begging him to stop, and he accuses her of being slow and stupid. She tells him that he is being rude.
What happened in Chapter 37 in chains?
At the window of Curzon’s cell, Isabel speaks to the big soldier who almost stole her food the first day. He says that the sergeant is dead. Curzon is very sick, and Isabel suspects that the other prisoners have been taking his share of the rations. She demands that they give him a blanket and make sure that he eats.
What happened in chapter 34 of chains?
Madam Lockton decides to throw a party to celebrate the British victory. She buys turtles for turtle soup and hires a chef to cook. She picks out the prettiest of the soldiers’ wives to wait on the guests, and she assigns the rest of the women to help the chef…
What was Chapter 9 about in the book chains?
By Laurie Halse Anderson Lost in dreams of earning freedom for herself and her sister, Isabel almost doesn’t hear Becky calling her for help. Lady Seymour wants to see her and Lockton’s brought his buddies over for some kind of Loyalist Boys’ Night.
What happened in chapter 20 of chains?
The mob decides to melt the lead down and make bullets to fire at the British. When Isabel comes home from watching all of this, Becky tells her something quite odd: Madam wants both of the girls to be fed sweet, nourishing food and that Isabel is to get the night off.