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In the Heat of the Night

Plot
== Mantolli is Killed and when they find a black man in a train station they take him in as a suspect, but it heats up when they find out Tibbs is a cop. Tibbs is put on the case, and Gillespie does not like it. Sam Wood is thrown into jail and is not yet proven guilty but is still in custody. the Purdys come down and say that Sam is convicted of rape against his daughter Delores Purdy, when Tibbs is on his way back to the station he is attacked by 2 men and they are brought in under suspicion and assault. Tibbs goes to the Purdy house and the Purdys disrespect him because he is a black man. Virgil tells Gillespie that Sam is going to catch the murdurer tonight. So they both set off and later picked up gillespie from the store, they ride around on Sam's route and later enter a diner for drinks without Virgil. Virgil walks into the white diner and Ralph the counterman yells at Virgil and Virgil then grabs him and tells Sam to arrest him. That night at the endicotts party, Tibbs explained how he found out it was Ralph, and then Gillespie takes him to the train station, says his goodbyes and walks back to his car. ==

Characters
== Sam Wood: a police officer that has worked in wells for 7 years and found Mantollis body on the road, he is now convicted of rape. Sam is a good guy and is innocent and would never rape Delores. In the end Sam arrests Ralph undersuspicion of the murder and is later proven guilty. == == Bill Gillespie: is the chief of police in the town of wells and has to share a case with Virgil Tibb, which Gillespie does not like at first. Bill is a good guy but often stubborn and likes things to go his way most of the time. Gets virgil to explain how HE caught the murdurer. == == Virgil Tibbs: an african american from pasedena, out to visit relatives when he is put on the case of Mantolli's murder, he is now hot on the case of the murderer. Virgil is very nice to people, and respectful, and he is nice enough to help out on the Mantolli case. He walks into the diner where Ralph works and gets Sam to make the arrest. ==

External
== Gillespie doe not like Tibbs running his case and says some rude stuff to Tibbs, because he does not like african americans taking over his cases.He gets mad because virgil is about to crack this case, but in the end starts to change and likes virgil. Ex:Person vs. Person ==

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?
== have learnt that racism is a bad habit in life, and it should be stopped! thid book is very important. because it displays the effect of racism. this book would make a great change on society, because society needs to realize that racism is not helping our world. but making it worse, racism is WRONG-STOP IT! ==