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Problem
Noah wants to go to war. -
Event #1
Cass can see dead people on Grand Tower. -
Event #2
Noah plays soldier games with his friends. Runs drill with his dad’s old gun. -
Event #3
Mother doesn’t want him to go to war because she knows he will be drawn into in and she know she can’t stop him -
Event #4
Delphine and Calinda come to Grand Tower as visitors, but thought of as spies. -
Event #5
Calinda can see people’s future in playing cards. Cass and Calinda have similar abilities. -
Event #6
Noah gets a letter from Curry that explains “Egypt is no place for them of my convictions.” -
Event #7
A showboat arrives in the late afternoon -
Event #8
Noah asks Delphine to dance with him. They dance together. -
Event #9
Dr Hutchings asks permission of Tilly’s mother if she can dance with him. They dance together. -
Event #10
Calinda dances the Calinda dance, nut her real name appears to be CoinCoin. -
Event #11
Noah sneaks away to war, “Like a thief in the night.” -
Event #12
Mama’s madness begins. -
Climax
Mama makes Tilly go get Noah because she hears he’s sick and says, “Don’t come back unless you have Noah!” -
Falling Action #1
Tilly and Delphine go to Cairo to find Noah. -
Falling Action #2
Tilly and Delphine find Noah sick and nurse him back to health along with many other soldiers. In the process Tilly found Hardee’s Tactics, a book about battles and how they were waged, on Noah’s bedside table. -
Falling Action #3
Noah goes back to war and lost his arm in the war so Delphine and Tilly have to take care of him before he can travel home. When they come home they find out that Mama has killed herself. -
Resolution
Grandma Tilly tells Howard the truth about the family. In 1916. -
Lincoln's inauguration
Lincoln's Inauguration was when Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States. -
Attack of Fort Sumter
The Attack of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. -
The Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run or First Manassas was the first real major conflict of the American Civil War. -
The Battle of Belmont
The Battle of Belmont was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig.
