The Man Who Was Thursday Summary
Chance Dunlap
Fiction Book Report 1st Quarter The novel The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton is an incredible work of fiction that thoroughly shows the ingenuity of its author. The plot has multiple twists and continually forces the reader to ponder the statements of the characters who all make philosophical statements throughout the entirety of the book. The novel gives the reader great detail into how England and France appeared to the people in the early 1900‘s. The novel begins in Saffron Park, just outside London, in the early 1900s with several important characters. Lucian Gregory is the first character introduced, a poet who stands in the park talking about anarchism everyday without fail. Gregory pops in and out of …show more content…
Gregory leads him to a small, decrepit restaurant on the seashore, and makes him pledge that he would never say anything about what he was about to see before leading him into the world of the Central Anarchist Council. The story really takes off then when Syme reveals that he is a policeman from Scotland Yard; just then, the other members of the council appear to elect the next Thursday, who is the man in charge of that chapter of the Council. Syme convinces the members attending the meeting that he is from their president and makes a speech that gets him nominated to be the next Thursday. From there he begins the real journey. The next morning, he meets the rest of the council leaders. The president who is Sunday, is larger than any man he has ever seen, both in height and weight. Every member, Sunday through Saturday, had something extremely odd about them, but none of them knew that every single one of them was an undercover cop, or that Sunday was the cop that instated them all. Over the course of the plot, they discover they are all Scotland Yard agents, and get attacked by lots of people, bringing them to the conclusion that Sunday has taken over the world, and that all the people are now anarchists. While
Fiction Book Report 1st Quarter The novel The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton is an incredible work of fiction that thoroughly shows the ingenuity of its author. The plot has multiple twists and continually forces the reader to ponder the statements of the characters who all make philosophical statements throughout the entirety of the book. The novel gives the reader great detail into how England and France appeared to the people in the early 1900‘s. The novel begins in Saffron Park, just outside London, in the early 1900s with several important characters. Lucian Gregory is the first character introduced, a poet who stands in the park talking about anarchism everyday without fail. Gregory pops in and out of …show more content…
Gregory leads him to a small, decrepit restaurant on the seashore, and makes him pledge that he would never say anything about what he was about to see before leading him into the world of the Central Anarchist Council. The story really takes off then when Syme reveals that he is a policeman from Scotland Yard; just then, the other members of the council appear to elect the next Thursday, who is the man in charge of that chapter of the Council. Syme convinces the members attending the meeting that he is from their president and makes a speech that gets him nominated to be the next Thursday. From there he begins the real journey. The next morning, he meets the rest of the council leaders. The president who is Sunday, is larger than any man he has ever seen, both in height and weight. Every member, Sunday through Saturday, had something extremely odd about them, but none of them knew that every single one of them was an undercover cop, or that Sunday was the cop that instated them all. Over the course of the plot, they discover they are all Scotland Yard agents, and get attacked by lots of people, bringing them to the conclusion that Sunday has taken over the world, and that all the people are now anarchists. While