Chelsey

In the Heat of the Night == Plot Sam Wood is patrolling Wells. Sam Woods finds a dead body with no wallet. The police department figured out the dead person is Mantoli. Sam is suspicious & finds a colored man named Virgil Tibbs at a station with alot of money & takes him back to the police station. They ask Virgil a few questions. They find out Virgil Tibbs is a police officer in Pasadena, California. Virgil then becomes in-charge of the case. Bill Gillespie takes Virgil to get a car, because Virgil in know apart of the Police Department for a few weeks. == == Virgil tells Bill to release Harvey Oberst, because he knows Harvey wasn't the murderer. Sam tells Virgil he geetting accused of raping a girl named Delores Purdy. Sam takes Virgil for a ride but takes a different route. Virgil knows something was happening. Bill Gillespie throws Sam into jail because of Delores Purdy. Virgil goes to Mr.Purdy's house & asks a few questions about Sam & Delores. The Purdys go to the police department & tells them that everything was a lie about Sam. They release Sam. Bill, Sam & Virgil go up-town & go to The All Night Drive-In. Virgil said Ralph the counterman was the murderer of Enrico Mantoli. Ralph was the one who murdered Enrico Mantoli. ==

Internal
Person vs. self when Sam looses faith in himself

Symbol
Virgil Tibbs might be a symbol of change

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 learned that racism is very horrible & stereotypes are not true. Yes, because this book could change racist people, because racism is not cool, & very cruel.

2.Do you think reading this book has changed you? Will it affect your life going forward? Does seeing the characters in the text think & affect the way you think & act? I’m not racist, but in someway it has changed me, because I could be rude. Yes, so when I’ll ignore racism when it ever comes to me. Yeah, in a way it does, so knowing that if I see racism happening, its not making the ones who are being discriminated against look bad, they are just making themselves look bad.

3. We all agree that the evil of racism is the theme of this book. How does the author convey this theme to the reader? (three ways) -A lot of examples of very shocking racism behaviour towards black people. -The character of Virgil disproves all the stereotypes white characters have. -The author makes the racist characters unattractive.