Summary Of Willie Morris' "Good Old Boy"
The book that I chose to read was written by the Mississippi author
Willie Morris. The book, Good Old Boy, was written in 1971 and takes place
in the small Mississippi town of Yazoo City. The book contains experiences
of the author's childhood in this small town.
The story began by telling many of the legends of Yazoo City. One
of these legends involved a woman who lived by the Yazoo river. She
supposedly lured fishermen to her house to kill and bury them in the woods
never to be found again. The sheriff eventually found out about her and
chased her through the woods into quicksand where she sank and died.
Before she was completely under the sand she vowed to return twenty ...
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who supposedly
lived on the land that Yazoo City was built on.
Next, the book told about the childhood life of the author, Willie
Morris. Willie, his dog Skip, and friends had many exciting adventures
together in that small town. They ranged from school day pranks to having
saved the town from a band of thieves.
They usually spent a lot of their time in Bubba's Model A Ford.
Bubba was about eleven or twelve and had a car. They mainly stuck with the
guys, but Rivers Applewhite, a girl friend, went with them on many of their
adventures. They took trips up into the hills some weekends to look for
old Civil War battlefields.
One year a huge crime wave swept through Yazoo City. There were
things stolen that no one could imagine anyone stealing. The thieves stole
radios, jewelry, money, and tombstones including the bodies in the graves.
The strange thing was that they left no evidence. The whole gang,
including Willie, Bubba Barrier, Skip, Billy Rhodes, ...
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