Wednesday, November 4, 2009

A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage by Mark Twain

Southwestern Missouri
Village of Deere Lick: small town, were John lives
Reverend Hurley: Reverend in town
John Grey: Mary Grey's father, farmer, 55 yrs old
Mary Grey: daughter of John Grey and loves Hugh Gregory
Hugh Gregory: Mary's love, has lots of money
- tall, handsome, honest
Sara/Sally Grey: John Grey's wife and Mary's mom
Tom: little brother
Dave: John's brother, very rich
Reverend comes and says Dave's gonna leave all money to Mary
John tells Mary shes not allowed to marry Hugh
He lives in small town called Deer Lick.
His daughter Mary Gray and Hugh Gregory want to get married.
Reverend John Hurley:Hates Hugh because he tried to cheat Hugh's father out of money and Hugh stopped him.
Dave left all his money to Mary in his will
John went into the field and found a stranger in the snow
The stranger was named George Wayne-Frenchmam who was very wealthy and his father is a lord and so is he, his father wanted to marry a queen but he wanted to marry for love.
His real name is Count Hubert dee Fountingblow
Mary now says she could love Count b/c he came a gave a big speech about how he will leave her alone b/c she loves Hugh.
Hugh and Dave get in a fight.
Count tells marry he loves her.
John comes and said Hugh has killed Dave, the knife, the cloth and blood.
Hugh and Mary are trying to reach each other but John gets in the way.
Count and Mary decide to get married.
The hanging of Hugh is on the same day as the counts and Marys wedding.
Mary doesn't know that Hugh has been excused.
They are going to get married- a stranger is the reverend and he tells of the hanging.
The police rush in and say that Hugh is innocent.
He taught himself everything he knows.
Count killed Dave Gray so that he could get Mary's wealth
Jean had worked for Jules Vern and Jean would go and when he came back he told Vern his stories.
Vern would then twist his stories and make books. He killed Vern when they were up in a hot air balloon.
This book is really bashing on Jules Vern b/c of Mark Twain and the stolen book.

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