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In the Heat of the Night == Plot In the 1960s in the streets, cities, and towns there was rascim every where in America. Sam Woods a little bit of a rasict cop is driving through the streets of Wells Carolina, finds the body of Mantolli in the middle of the street. And he drives to the train station thinking the fugitive is an African American male. He picks up a African American named Virgil Tibbs. After interviewing him they find out that he is dectective sent to in vestitgate the murder of Mantolli. Bill Gillespie yells at Tibbs and yells at him to go home. After a while he allows him to help them with cracking this case and them give Tibbs a place to stay for a while. They determine that the body was droped off on to the road by the killers. Virgil and Sam go enroute together and Sam starts to like and trust Virgil, and Bill and Virgil have a none racist talk. Bill and Virgil talk about the murder, and Virgil left to go find evidence and finds the murder weapon and gives it to Bill and leaves. Delores Purdy and her Father go to the police station and talk to Bill and they assume Sam raped her and made her pregnant. Bill finds out more information about what Sam did that night and how was carrying lots of money. Bill arrested Sam and sent him to the jail for questioning. Virgil thinks Sam is innocent, Duena Mantolli goes to see Sam and she also thinks that Sam did not murder her Father and asks Sam if he did or not. Virgil goes to see Delores and her Father and questions her about the night she got "raped". Virgil gets Deuna, Sam, Bill, the Purdys, and the Endicots and tells them all on how he thinks Sam is innocent and proves to them that he is innocent and Bill gets him out of jail. After Sam being proved to be innocent Sam, and Virgil go out for a ride around. Bill tags along with them and they get hungry so they go the resturant with Ralph being the waiter. Bill and Sam go in Virgil waits in the car. After a while Virgil comes in and wants a glass of milk Ralph yells at him to get out and Virgil kept walking in and Virgil goes up to Ralph and says to Sam that Ralph is the killer. Ralph confeses and the Endicottes start a party and Virgil Explains how he figured every thing out. Bill drives Virgil to the train station so he could go back to Pasindina. ==

Se tting In the streets of Wells Carolina in the 1960's is when this story takes place.
== Characters Sam Wood is a big tough guy who is a little racist who wouldn't do bad things to innnocent people. He maybe a police officer but he wouldn't rape and\or kill a man in the middle of no where. Virgil Tibbs is a detective who comes from Pasindina Californa. He is a tough African American guy who can take a lot crap from a lot of racist people who say that they can't fight or they can't be that smart. Bill Gillespie is the chief of the police that can racist most of the times. He is a big guy who thinks he can order people when ever he wants to. == == Conflict The three types ofexternal conflict are Virgil vs Society in Wells Carolina the reason why this is one of the types of conflict in the book is because its Virgil vs how racist most of the people are in Wells. The police vs the killer this was when they were trying to find the killer and how the suspects they thought was they were not. There was Virgil vs the nature of the racist people on how Virgil was treated badly but he stood up for him self. ==

Point of View This story was told in a third person way how there was a narrator telling the story.
== Theme The theme is telling you how racist the people were back on how there was resturants for white people and black people and they were treated poorly from the white people and how the white people talked about them having no feelings etc. ==

1. What have you learned from reading this book? Do you think this is an important book for students to read? Explain. Do you think reading this book could make a change in society? Explain.
== I have learned how poorly treated the black people were then.This is a very important book for students to rad because it teaches them that racism is bad. It can make a big change in society because it shows everyone how racist the people were back then and how it can make people feel. ==

== Yes it showed me that the black people had rights but were still treated like crap. Well racism has already affected my life before I read this book and I always have known it is a very, very bad thing. How the "good" characters acted make me act nice to who ever it is (other than my archnemis'). ==

== It shows how racist the white people were back then with them saying " The black boxers can't feel the punches thats why they are so good." Makes all racist and bad characters unattractive for people not to like them. Virgil disproves all African American steryotypes and makes them a lie that all African American people are like that. ==