Summarizer Example

Sarny by Gary Paulsen

Section 5 (pg. 111-142)

How to do this job:

1. Prepare a brief summary of the reading for this section.

2. You will give your fellow group members a 1 or 2 minute statement that tells the key points or main highlights of today’s reading.

3. Label your paragraph as “Summary.”

4. If there are several main ideas or events to remember, you may list them using numbered lines.

Summary:

In this section, Lucy, Tyler 2, and Sarny have finally arrived in New Orleans. They have been traveling with the woman they met earlier in their travels. Miss Laura has persuaded Lucy and Sarny to become her employees, earning twenty dollars per month, plus receiving free room and board. Sarny goes shopping at open-air markets in New Orleans with Bartlett, and she is amazed the amount of food that is available. The main event that occurs in this section takes during a dinner party that Lucy and Sarny have been working to prepare for. During the guest arrivals, a man walked in with two children. Sarny is taking the guests’ coats and hats, when all of sudden she takes a long, critical look at the children. They are her Tyler and Little Delie! The man who entered the party with Sarny’s children is a bit angered and confused, and Sarny openly tells Miss Laura, while the man could hear, that she would gut him like a hog if he touches them again. Sarny describes how she now feels at home living and working at Miss Laura’s home in New Orleans. At the conclusion of this section, Sarny meets a kind man, Stanley, and they get married.

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