Thompson Arcella Jefferson- Newt's first love Jefferson Cavanaugh- Judge of Cherokee Flats, employer of Sarah Winger Marcus Savage- Newt's adversary Silas Newhall- Accused murderer of Jake Kiner Other Characters III. Setting Place: Cherokee Flats, Kansas Time: 1920's Description: A small Southern town with blazing summers and freezing winters IV. Plot This novel is about Newt Winger and his family during his years in Cherokee Flats. It tells about his (Newt's) first love, first enemy, and his first encounters with death and racism. He even saves a white man's life, despitestrong and that some how it could be cured but nope, not a chance. He learns that as he gets killed with the untrusting look in Charlies eyes. Unfortunately, before Charlie could get to John, John got to Andy, and Andy was killed. Charlie was dumbfounded. She couldnt believe that her father was dead. Out of all of those years that she and he had gone out and ran from the government, it was over; she no longer...
