The Addams Generation: Chapter Summary

It rains on the night of Anna’s funeral. The sky splits itself open and weeps for her and Abner does not. Anna is dead. It’s the first time in years that all the Drummond children are together and nobody is fighting and Anna is dead.

Though Clare had begun to turn her life around, and even embrace the culture she had shut out of her mind and life, she lost it all. When her husband, John Bellew, found out she had been lying to him throughout their whole marriage, he went to confront her at a party she had been attending with Irene and Brian. This did not go as planned for anyone involved, though maybe it did end the way Clare had planned. John went up to Clare by the window, and Irene rushed to her side. The next thing the both of them knew, Clare was gone.

Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln. Jane was determined to get a good education which she ended up getting. She went to Rockford sanitary for women which is now called Rockford University and she also studied to be a doctor but had to quit because she was hospitalised too many times. Being sick affected her life very much so when she got older she remedied her spinal defect with surgery.

The couple had just returned to their apartment to have dinner after visiting their daughter, Quintana, in the hospital. Quintana had been unconscious for days and was suffering from pneumonia and septic shock. Didion recalls that she was mixing the salad for dinner when she noticed her husband stop mid-sentence and slump over. Within an hour of calling the paramedics, John was pronounced dead (p. 22). Within an hour, her husband had gone from living and breathing in his living room recliner, to a death certificate marked 10:18 p.m.

Mary genuinely loved and cared for Patrick and would never intently plan to kill him with hatred. When she returned from the store and saw her adored husband dead on the ground, despite how Patrick mistreated her, “no acting was necessary” when

Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. Her mother died when she was only a few years old, which may have spurred her ambitions to become a doctor when she was very young, but she was unable to fulfill her ambitions, due to her often back pains, and was sick most of the time. In 1877, Jane attended the Rockville Female Seminary where she learned to write and speak with authority, traits that would be useful for years to come. When she graduated in 1881, she became ill and depressed, and became more so after her father died that same year when she was only 21.

Jane Grey Swisshelm was a native born Pittsburgh girl. Her influential personality made a massive impact on journalism, abolitionist, and women’s rights during the Civil War. Her impact on Pittsburgh lead to a neighborhood being named after her - Swisshelm Park in southeast Pittsburgh. Some of Swisshelm’s biggest accomplishments include, writing for several Pittsburgh newspapers, working for the New York Tribune, and creating several newspapers to support women’s rights and abolition. Jane Grey Swisshelm was born on December 6, 1815 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Fred and Bertha, her friend, went over to Miss Agnes’ house and she put them to work immediately. They helped her with small chores and then Miss Agnes invited them for tea. During tea, Fred explained that her Mamma was not happy she was in school because she believed she would be better off if she stayed in the home and learned to work. Fred’s daddy had died in an accident so Mamma needed all the

At the beginning of Chapter 1, Jane Addams states that she is going to discuss her childhood because that is the time when “character is formless but nevertheless setting into definite lines of future development.” After reading Chapter 1, choose three incidents from Jane Addams’ childhood which influenced her character development, briefly describe each incident, and tell what character trait resulted from it. • Jane was the youngest child out of her family and the community’s children. She had to learn to fit in and make friends with children

John contemplates the concept of oneness with Jane. On a late afternoon day, Jane tells John she has loved knowing him forever. She tells John they have been together for more than 50 years and that he has Alzheimer’s. They have grandkids. Jane transforms into a 90-year-old woman, John does too.

While she was lying there she had been hearing Janies young voice in what she thought was a dream, then to be thrown off guard with the voice of a young man as well. Before anyone knew it, she had snapped up and stood outside watching as her young Janie was being kissed on by Johnny and young Janies life would soon begin. When Nanny had seen this act, she told Janie that she was a woman know, she had things expected of her and things that needed to be done for her and that Johnny Taylor was nothing but a boy. Nanny had forced Janie into a marriage with Logan Killiks, a man who had been coming around the house talking to Janies Nanny for this specific reason. When Janie came across this news she was dumfounded, she was too young too marry, she did not want to marry Logan, she did not want to marry anyone that she did not already love.

She was in an unstable environment. Jane and the other kids camping out in the woods so that the cops would not bother them. The overall problem for Jane is she was homeless. Jane’s current age is 26-and she is a single mother who reports that she was living on the streets, and she had nowhere to go. She did eventually get an apartment that she shared with other people.

Once upon a time, I lived. I lived a wealthy and hospitable life in aristocratic circles; however, that same young man became greedy and corrupt to a point where a deal was struck with the devil. It was 1890 when I died, although my casket remains empty to this day. I have continued with my life from that day forth—always living, no matter how sinister, and never dying. I stay a few years in one place before moving on and establishing somewhere else.

As the cholera starts spreading, Mary’s nanny is one of the first to be affected. Mary then finds out about her Ayah’s death and its not really affected by it. One day Mary shuts her self in her room, and stays away from everything and everyone. Finally, she comes out to find an empty abandoned

James goes to ask his mother about the situation, and she is so surprised to see him she even faints. He does not understand why his mother faints after seeing him, so he rushes her to the hospital. At the hospital he gets the news that his wife remarried, his land was sold, and people thought that he was dead. James is so agitated, and he rushes to find his wife. He is filled with rage when he finds his wife carrying a toddler, three years of age whom he assumed was the son she bore with his friend.