1. Bill Gillespie was rude to Virgil Tibbs in the beginning of chapter 5 because he spoke when Mr. Endicott came to speak with Gillespie.
2. Virgil is polite as usual and deals with Gillespie's outburst in a calm manner. Virgil does as he is told with out any auguring, so one of Vigil's characteristics that would be shown in this situation would be his strong patience. He could have thrown a fit and that would have made perfect sense, but instead, Virgil just says "Good morning, Chief Gillespie" and leaves as asked. He usually deals with things this way (patiently), so it is a characteristic of him.
3. Frank Schubert is the mayor of Wells. He also is the manager of a hardware store, owns two gas stations. He is an important person to the city of Wells. He and Gillespie were debating over whether or not they should keep Tibbs with them and allow him to investigate the murder any further. Frank ends up convincing Gillespie that he should call Tibbs back and allow him to stay. Frank says that it will be a win win either way for Gillespie, that if Tibbs does catch the murder, he will have to hand everything over to Gillespie because he has no power from a different state, and if things go wrong and it fails, the blame goes to Tibbs.
4. a) This thought of Bill's is very racist (like most of his thoughts). All types of people can smell bad not just people with darker skin.
b) This is showing that Tibbs is dedicated, hard working, and a good listener, all good things for a good employer! I think that he has a lot of respect in California, where he lives, because of these characteristics (and black people have more rights there in that time frame).
c) I think that it's good that Tibbs is smart enough to know that they are using him. I predict that in the end of the story Tibbs will get the praise, not Gillespie. If Tibbs resolves the case, I think that Gillespie and the whole city of Wells will become a little less racist.
d) Tibbs says this and means by it that he doesn't want to be noticed. If Virgil were to drive a police car in Wells, he would be easily noticed by the people of Wells, because he would stick out and Wells is a racist town. A black police officer in Wells doesn't exist, so Tibbs doesn't want to cause any trouble. Him driving a regular car would be better if he doesn't want to stick out.
e) Tibbs is saying that people that aren't racist from where he lives knows that he is good at his job (police officer). So he has good references there because they don't judge people based on their skin.
5. Mrs. Endicott greets Mr. Tibbs the same as she would do to anyone, politely. She shakes his hand and then welcomes Sam and him into her house and calls them gentlemen. This shows that she is not racist.
6. Eric Kaufmann was Mr. Mantoli's associate and manager. His alibi is that he left town at 10pm to drive to Atlanta. He got there around 2:30am and was shaving when the call came though.
7. When Sam first sees Duena, he is a little surprised because he was expecting her to be fat, but she was skinny and looked as if she would never become large. He was expecting her to look this way because he thought that all Italian women we like that. She makes a good impression on him. He feels compassionate towards her and he wants to comfort her. Some characteristics of Duena that are shown in this chapter would be quiet, gentle, cooperative, a little curious, and beautiful.
8. A few things have been added to the plot from this chapter. There are four new characters that we have met, Duena Mantoli, Eric Kaufmann, Frank Schubert and Jess. We know, that Sam and Eric have feelings towards Duena, what Gillespie's plans are with Tibbs, and that Tibbs is aware that Gillespie is thinking.
2. Virgil is polite as usual and deals with Gillespie's outburst in a calm manner. Virgil does as he is told with out any auguring, so one of Vigil's characteristics that would be shown in this situation would be his strong patience. He could have thrown a fit and that would have made perfect sense, but instead, Virgil just says "Good morning, Chief Gillespie" and leaves as asked. He usually deals with things this way (patiently), so it is a characteristic of him.
3. Frank Schubert is the mayor of Wells. He also is the manager of a hardware store, owns two gas stations. He is an important person to the city of Wells. He and Gillespie were debating over whether or not they should keep Tibbs with them and allow him to investigate the murder any further. Frank ends up convincing Gillespie that he should call Tibbs back and allow him to stay. Frank says that it will be a win win either way for Gillespie, that if Tibbs does catch the murder, he will have to hand everything over to Gillespie because he has no power from a different state, and if things go wrong and it fails, the blame goes to Tibbs.
4. a) This thought of Bill's is very racist (like most of his thoughts). All types of people can smell bad not just people with darker skin.
b) This is showing that Tibbs is dedicated, hard working, and a good listener, all good things for a good employer! I think that he has a lot of respect in California, where he lives, because of these characteristics (and black people have more rights there in that time frame).
c) I think that it's good that Tibbs is smart enough to know that they are using him. I predict that in the end of the story Tibbs will get the praise, not Gillespie. If Tibbs resolves the case, I think that Gillespie and the whole city of Wells will become a little less racist.
d) Tibbs says this and means by it that he doesn't want to be noticed. If Virgil were to drive a police car in Wells, he would be easily noticed by the people of Wells, because he would stick out and Wells is a racist town. A black police officer in Wells doesn't exist, so Tibbs doesn't want to cause any trouble. Him driving a regular car would be better if he doesn't want to stick out.
e) Tibbs is saying that people that aren't racist from where he lives knows that he is good at his job (police officer). So he has good references there because they don't judge people based on their skin.
5. Mrs. Endicott greets Mr. Tibbs the same as she would do to anyone, politely. She shakes his hand and then welcomes Sam and him into her house and calls them gentlemen. This shows that she is not racist.
6. Eric Kaufmann was Mr. Mantoli's associate and manager. His alibi is that he left town at 10pm to drive to Atlanta. He got there around 2:30am and was shaving when the call came though.
7. When Sam first sees Duena, he is a little surprised because he was expecting her to be fat, but she was skinny and looked as if she would never become large. He was expecting her to look this way because he thought that all Italian women we like that. She makes a good impression on him. He feels compassionate towards her and he wants to comfort her. Some characteristics of Duena that are shown in this chapter would be quiet, gentle, cooperative, a little curious, and beautiful.
8. A few things have been added to the plot from this chapter. There are four new characters that we have met, Duena Mantoli, Eric Kaufmann, Frank Schubert and Jess. We know, that Sam and Eric have feelings towards Duena, what Gillespie's plans are with Tibbs, and that Tibbs is aware that Gillespie is thinking.
what are your predictions for the next chapter?
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