In the Heat of the Night opens on a hot and humid August night in the fictional North Carolina town of Wells.
A. It illustrates the authors strong emotions about the loss of innocence
Jim’s master throws a heavy weight at him. It misses and hits Harriet, fracturing her skull.
The chest, on that day of moving, had been set in the new attic, which was smaller than the other, and less frightening, perhaps because gaps in the cedar-shingled roof let dabs of daylight in. When the roof was being repaired, the whole space was thrown open to the weather. This is the answer.
