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mrznegron62107
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High School - 11th Grade

What happens in Chapter 9 of The Water Is Wide?

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Posted by mrznegron62107 on Saturday December 29, 2007 at 11:07 PM and tagged with chapter 9, summary, the water is wide.

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  1. dymatsuoka

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    In Chapter 9, Conroy is amazed at the children's lack of familiarity with the world outside of Yamacraw after taking a group of boys to see the Harlem Globetrotters in Charleston.  To expand their knowledge of life beyond the island, he brings in friends to speak to the students and share their particular areas of expertise.  The speakers include Dick, a dentist from Boston, Conroy's sister Carol Ann, an aspiring actress who does such a good job presenting a scene from MacBeth that the children are convinced she is a real witch, and the students' all-time-favorite, Richie, who performs traditional folk and rock songs for the class and engages them in a session of rousing gospel singing.  At the end of the chapter, Conroy muses on the children's propensity for cruelty to animals and seeming callousness toward suffering, and the prevalence of violence in their individual family lives.

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    Posted by dymatsuoka on Tuesday January 1, 2008 at 9:18 PM