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In the Heat of the Night == Plot When a man is murdered they bring in a colored man as a suspect but then find out that the suspect is virgil tibbs, a police officer/ detective from California. Tibbs ends up helping to solve the murder. The town and other officers treat Tibbs really bad because of his skin colour. Virgil was helping them out and in return he got treated unfair. He is alright with it because he is use to it so he does not do anything about it. The cops find out that virgil is a way better cop then them and dont believe that a black man could be smart. They continue working on solving the murder when Bill Gillespie brings in Harvey Oberst as a suspect. Tibbs soon finds that Harvey is innocent because he is left-handed and the murderer has to be right-handed. Bill Gillespie then puts Sam Woods in as a suspect because of his bank records and that Delores Purdy claims that she had been raped by him. After Virgil talks to Sam about it he knows that he is innocent. Virgil brings in Delores and her father to question. Tibbs soon scares Delores into telling the truth and she quickly makes up a lie that she dreamed about him raping her. Sam Woods is now innocent and goes on a night ride with Virgil and Bill. When they stop at the diner vigil then arrests Rulph as the murderer of Enrico Mantoli. When they take him down to the police station he admits to the murder and the case is closed.== = =

Setting The story takes place in the town of Wells, south Carolina In the 1960s
== Characters Virgil Tibbs: Is a very intelligent black detective from California that has a good eye for crime. He gets treated unfair all the time by everyone in the town because of his skin colour. Even when tibbs is being treated like garbage he always treats everyone with respect.== ==Sam Woods: Is a police officer that doesn't like Virgil Tibbs at the start of the book but then starts to like him and helps him to solve the murder. Sam woods starts off being very raciest like everyone buy after getting to know Tibbs he changes his mind.== ==Bill Gillespie: Is the chief of police and not a very smart man. He is a very raciest man. He doesn't like Tibbs at all and wants him to leave his town. near the very end of the book Bill doesn't mind Virgil but still is a little raciest.==

Conflict
== External there was person VS person conflict between Virgil Tibbs and Mr Purdy. He didnt like coloured people and treated them meanly and unfair. Mr Purdy was raciest and said bad things to Tibbs. Another person VS person is Virgil Tibbs and Bill Gillespie. Bill thinks he is a smarter and better cop because Tibbs is black. Virgil Tibbs is the better cop and Bill figures it out and gets mad at Virgil. A example of person VS society is Virgil VS Wells. everyone in wells is raciest and hates all black people. Virgil is trying to help the town solve the murder but he is constantly being treated like crap. When people treat him like this he doesn't treat them the same way. He treats everyone with respect because he is the better person.==

== Internal A example of person VS self is Sam woods. at the start of the book Sam is a very racist man like everyone else in Wells but as he gets to know Virgil he starts to like the man and is not racist anymore. ==

Point of View the book This book is in third person point of view because it is told by the narrator.
== Theme The most important thing that the author is trying to get across is racism. In this book it shows how black people were treated in the older days. the author uses Virgil Tibbs to show the readers tha black people are smart and the same as white people. ==

Symbol I think that the symbol of this book it racism. In the 1960s black men were treated unfair and not equal to anyone.
== 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 alot about how bad black people were treated in the older days. i never knew that they got treated so unfairly and how mean white people were to them. I think that this is an important book for students to read because it teaches them about racism. i think this book will make people think twice and be less racist. ==

== 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 the way you think or act. After reading this book i have changed by being more cautious about racism and how black people were treated in the 1960s. It will affect my life going forward by making sure i never treat anyone the way people get treated in the book. i dont really think or act like anyone in the book. ==

== 3) We all agree that the evil of racism is the main theme of this book. How does the author convey this theme to the reader? (three ways) The author makes all the racist characters stupid and unatractive to the reader and makes all the non-racist characters sound cool and somebody the reader would like to be like. Another way is that all the stereotypes the town has about black people Virgil Tibbs comes into the book and proves all the stereotypes wrong by acting the opposite. One more way is that there is a lot of very shocking behaviour towards all black people, For example Rulph and Sam talk about how black people cant feel the same pain as white people because they think black people are just like animals and dont have any feelings. ==