Chapters+1-2

Chapter #1 Chapter one is really all about giving you back round information about the history of Dawson’s Landing a very big slave town in Missouri. Also it goes in depth about the different type of people that inhabitant the Landing, and he give little descriptions about there home life and other bits of background information that set up the plot for the rest of the play. Twain talks in-depth about the head of the social class in the town. He starts at the very top with York Leicester Driscoll, or has he is referred to in the book Judge Driscoll, Twain states that he is a chief citizen. Judge Driscoll is part of an old Virginia family who is very set in his ways of religion. There is one thing that he wishes he could change though, and that is Judge Driscoll wishes that he and his wife could have a child that is the one thing missing in his life. Its also the one thing missing in his sisters life. Twain then final gets to one of the main characters Percy Driscoll, who is a very well off man who has lost almost everything that he holds dear, and that is his kids. But in the month of February he and his wife have a new born baby son named Thomas Driscoll. But he is not the only one to have a baby in the month of Feb. one of his slaves Roxana "Roxy" also had a new baby boy named. The Twain introduces a new character in the first chapter, and he is undoubtedly the most important person in the book. That person is David Wilson he is a young Scottish man fresh out of law school. But he makes one big mistake when he arrived at Dawson’s Landing. He tried to fit in with the local residents by making small talk with them but kept on being interrupted by a dog that no one could see but could definitely hear. So he made a smart joke that no one there got. He said " I wish I owned half of that dog." This Gives the towns people the impression that he is really dumb, thus hurting his law practice due to the fact that no one wants to be represented by some one that has a below average IQ.

Chapter #2 Chapter two is where the plot of the story is set up, this the building block for the rest of the book. One day while in town running picking up a few things for Percy Driscoll’s house Roxy stops in front of Wilson’s store to talk to an other slave. The thing that get Wilson’s attention is the comment that Roxy makes to the other black man, she puts him down while he stirs to flirt with her by saying he is "too black" so natural Wilson looks up. To find out that Roxy looks almost white her self but he knows by they way that she is talking to the other man by her speech that he is a little bit black her self. He also notices the two little boys who look like twins but the only difference is that one is dressed in rags and the other one is dressed very well. By now Wilson has taken up hobbies in may other things to pass the time because no one wants him to work form them due to his lack of smarts. So he begins to fingerprint every one in the town. But this is the first time he has seen the two boys before so he jumps at the chance to get their finger prints. He does this s moth latter also. Right around the time that he takes the fingerprints the second time Percy Driscoll notices that some one has taken money form and he is outraged so he gathers up all of his slaves and tell them to own up to it or they will all be sold down the river to face very harsh living and working conditions. Where they will be forced to perform hard physical labor. Eventual the tree slaves that took the money own up to it and Percy "takes it easy on them" and sells them locale. But that threat to sell them down river scares Roxy into doing some thing very dramatic to potential save her son from ever having to face that type of persecution…….