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| Plot Summary of Distant Dreams - Ribbons of Steel 1 |
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"Carolina Adams is a most unusual woman for 1830's America. She's about a century too early for her interests in masculine things such as science and learning and railroads. Her very proper southern mother wants only the best for her, a proper marriage to a financially stable man, love be hanged. Her father's much more understanding and doting. He begins to seek a tutor willing to impart knowledge upon his smart daughter.
James Baldwin's just not cut out to be a banker. The Balwin fortune is in deep trouble thanks to Leland Baldwin's careless spending. James' first love was the railroad, but when a derailment kills a friend and greatly injures James, he's scared to death of the coal-burning monstrosities. He agrees to become Carolina's tutor and court Virginia, Carolina's elder sister. Pressured by his father and mother James courts Virginia Adams, but he didn't count on falling back in love with the railroad or falling in love with Carolina Adams either.
Both Carolina and James think their love is hopeless. She gets her heart broken for she is far too much of a lady to try and steal her sister's fiance. Of course, she comes tantalizingly close to confessing her feelings to her tutor on several occasions. Her coming out party is disrupted by an altercation started when Carolina speaks her mind to an ignorant guest disparaging her beloved railroads. She's more dismayed than ever when that very night James proposes to her sister.
James breaks his engagment, but he's far too much the gentleman to publically dump Virginia Adams, so he leaves it to her to announce anything she pleases. James flees to his work with the trains and railroads, and Carolina pines at home still reeling from the loss of a little sister and the sheer irksomeness of being misunderstood by all.
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Julie Gilbert, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Distant Dreams - Ribbons of Steel 1 |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of story
- 19th century
Love Triangles/Polygons
Yes
What kind:
- one man--two sisters
If one lover chases another...
- they alternate
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
How sexual is this person?
- frigid
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
How sexual is this person?
- naive virgin
How romantic is this person?
- somewhat romantic
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
What % of story is romance related?
- 70%
Part of a series?
Yes
Focus of story
- equally on him and her
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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