Riley

In the Heat of the Night == Plot - In the 1960's in the streets, cities, towns, there was racism in America. Sam Woods is driving around the city of Wells and he drives past a young ladies house and she is drunk and not wearing any clothes. He drove cautiously looking for dogs on the middle of the street because he had hit one before because it was laying in the middle of the street. He found a dead body in the middle of the highway. He phones the police office and request for the chief to come and take a look at the body. The chief told him to go and look for a possible suspect walking around. Sam went to the train station and found a African American man sitting their reading a book and tells him to put his hands up and he arrests him without questioning first which is illegal. They ask the man what his name is, Virgil Tibbs he says. Then after the ask where he is from and how he got all the money in his wallet. He tells the chief that he is a police officer in Pasadina, Califoria. The chief phone his boss in Pasadina and asks about him. Virgil is in the middle of solving the case and asks Delores to come in for some testing to prove that Sam had done nothing to her or if he had done something and that he knows that Sam Woods should be proven non-guilty. Virgil walks in to the diner and walks to the counter and grabs the cashier Ralph by the cuff of his shirt and says "you killed him didnt you." He then states that Ralph is under arrest for the murder of Mr. Mantoli. He later reveals how Sam was innocent and how Delores was not pregnant. Bill Gillespie takes Virgil to the train station and they say there good buys. Virgil suggests that Samwould make a good inspector. ==

Setting 1960's Wells Carolina
== Characters Virgil Tibbs is an African American Police officer from Pasadina California, Sam Woods is a cop from the town of Wells Carolina and he was pretty racist at the start of the book, Bill Gillespie is the chief of police in the town of Wells Carolina and he is a racist person ==

External person vs. person ex. virgil getting jumped by 2 guys and Virgil and Delores argueing Why do these things happen? What causes the conflict?
== Internal Person vs. self ex. Sam defending him self and saying he didnt rape Delores Purdy The conflict must be internal - Sam fighting with himself, for example being brought up racist but finding that Virgil proves all the syerotypes he has believed are wrong ==

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== 1. what have you learned from reading this book? do you think this is an importtant book for students to read? EXPLAIN. you think reading this book could make a change in society? EXPLAIN. I learned that racism was really bad back then and mostly everyone was racist to black men. ==

I think it could make a change because the society people could start a racism campagne
== 2. do you think reading this book has changed you? will it affect your life going forward? does seeing how the characters in the text think & act affect the way you think or act. I'm not to sure if this book will change me because I like the way Iam. ==