The scene where we can spot easily in this story

At some point between last chpter and this chapter, Mr. Leroy's family has been kidnapped and he was determined to gave money to be able to free them. Anyways in the chapter he is going to make Ms. Holston happy by giving her a present that should reminds her of Mr. Holston. In the end they ended up giving a wood-carving with a lovely statement on it. So Ms. Holston gave him gold for him to pay for his family.

Even though Mr. Leroy already had money enough to pay for his family, but he still had no idea how will he get them back since he cant arranged a meeting or anything. Mr. Preacher came in time like he was waiting for this moment and he then claimed that he can actually arranged a meeting with those guys and with only 100 extra bucks for travelling. Mr. Leroy then make his mind to trust him and then gave a money to him without hesitation. Pa said he has a bad feeling about this.

The Preacher really did it! he stole the money and left. When Pa and Eli knew about it they were really shocked but when Mr.Leroy knew it. He wasn't shock in one bit but instead he was furious as fire he grabbed his axe and ready to cut up Eli into two. He push Eli's head down to the ground.

Pa said what are you trying to do and pull me up. Mr.Leroy wasn't really going to kill him but Eli once again thought about it by himself. They got a piece of information that Preacher is in the forest so they folllowed him there and in the forest, Eli felt that someone was there watching them and he felt like somebody grabbed his collar.

It was just a chunk of stone but what really concern him now was that Mr. Leroy called him to talk to him. Mr. Leroy then ask for Eli's help to guide him because he was lost. They then plan to go to Michican ( though Eli thinks it's more like a kidnap) and find the preacher's location and get Mr. Leroy's money back.

Mr. Leroy somehow gather information near the gambling area and he found out that preacher was now in the east part of America and he's going where the slaver is. They again got on the jingle bell and roll along the road. Mr. Leroy's limit has come where his stress surpass his mind and he can't even move one bit, blood came out of nose and mouth and then he slowly began to stay still, so the driver promise to take Mr.Leroy to Eli's aunt and Eli will gather some people from Buxton to go and get that preacher.

As he running along the way he was a barn and he thought that maybe he could find some water for him to drink. And he found a slave woman and child there, they're born slave and they weren't even one time being able to free themselves because they're in America. So Eli told them that in Canada, there's no more slave, they're all free there so These Mother-child decided to go to Buxton and start a new life as a free one.

They had a little chit-chat about what's goin on in Buxton and then some people came inside, but fortunately it was those gambler which was giving information in Michican. They said that preacher is dead and was hanged in the stable. Eli told them that they all should go and try to rescue slaves there but they refused because they knew it better than Eli that if they do it now it would be a futile.

So Eli came back to this Woman alone and there he talked a little more ( I'm curious why didn't he just take her out ) So the woman said that this girl is Eli's daughter but it happened long time ago so now she's planning that Eli should take her and let she sees Pa so she won't ended up having a tragic life like her. So they came back to Buxton. At there Mr. Douglas has done some miracle he has brought some of the villagers and attack the slaver's camp and steal the money back for Mr. Leroy.
the end has said "There's always a hope in Buxton"

The story starts with a girl named Emma. she usually doesn't socialize with anybody but her dolls and that pretty much creeps other people around her too. The story goes on just like everyday lives of Eli except that There's a family that's going to move in. So as a tradition Cooter and Eli went to school and rang the liberty bell

The liberty bell is not an ordinary bell, it's a gift from other former slaves that live in America because they're proud of Buxton. So the new family consisted of 5 people that's why they rang it 100 times. The new family greeted everybody and try to be familiar with them by asking and trying to gather informations and rules that they should acknowledge about this settlement.

Eli mentioned about his favorite chore which is going to pick the mails. That day he intended to pick the mail but before that he went and asked everybody who was waiting for the mail so he can pick up quickly. After that he went and get his mails and there's one for Ms. Holston and when he took it for her she told him to read it for her so he did. He learned the truth about Ms. holston and he just can't help it but cry.

After coming back from Ms.Holston, His father told him that there's going to be big event coming. The next day father told him that they're going to go picnic and needed him to invite more people. after they go there, they started to have little chit chat about children and how beautiful the environment they saw after they're free.

Elijah came back home after fishing with 6 fish and he shared to Mrs. Brown and Mr. Leroy because he has promised them to hand them fishes. In this chapter nothing much has happen, or it should be seen as nothing at all will stir up some conflict in later chapter, but it shows that Elijah is learning more and more about life.

The next chapter is about Mr.Travis trying to taught some manner to these kids, because he didn't like the way Cooter address him at the sawmill. I can sense that somehow Mr. Travis wasn't teaching about it much but he sure was angry at Cooter for being disrespectful.

Later that day, Elijah worked with Mr. Leroy until dark and they walked back together. While doing so, Elijah talked to him about many things and when he said the word "Niggah", Mr. Leroy was very pissed and taught some serious lesson to Eli that this word is a cold, harsh word that could penetrate through any former slaves' heart and make them angry.

The preacher took Eli to the circus but Eli wasn't totally convinced but the preacher convinced him about how awesome would it be so in the end he accepted to go with preacher. At there he saw a show where one woman shoot a slingshot to anything accurately and he saw "Jimmy", one of his schoolmate, there in the show too. And after that the preacher took Eli to meet other person.

In the next show Eli watched, there's a stranger white kid sat next to him and told him about that there's Elijah of Chatham and he didn't like to see any body to have the same name with him. This shows that racism is still there even though there's no more slave but still, people tends to stick to the way they used to be.

The next story is pretty interesting. Preacher brought Eli to the camp's owner and the preacher show off Eli's skill of throwing rocks to him and want to let him pay some wages for traveling with them and showing the skills. After that night in the Monday's morning, McWee told Eli and other students that the preacher is actually a theif and steal the circus' money and kidnap him to here. This is a twist in a story which most of the reader might not seen even a foreshadow of preacher's true color before.

One day, Cooter told Eli that he saw some mystery and it's about strange track that Eli didn't have a single clue what it is. After that he told his Pa about it and he said it's a hoop snake and it's very dangerous, it roll like a hoop and run after people and its poison is the worst. Eli and Cooter ran home without a second thought and Ma scolded him about how coward he was. So this has lit the idea of how he will be in the later chapter that he would be more brave.
After that Eli's parents taught him a scary lesson which was not to be so fragile but in the end, it seemed it was only a joke they wanted to play

There'd be one time that Mr. Douglas visited Buston. Mr. Douglas was a wise man hat cacn speak fluently. At that party Elicaused havoc that brought wild creatures to the Settlement. But later Ma told him that it's jsut a joke that they're making on him.

Eli had to finished the chore first before he can went out and fish. He manage to finished killing horsefly the last because he would use it as bait for catching fish and he fish by stoning them not using string or hook. But after that Preacher fooled him and brought 4 of his fishes home.

The story reached the rising action because of some of people were captured by white men and while they're searching for them, preacher said that he found them and took a gun from them. But Eli thought that why did preacher found only 1 gun because there's no way that only one person brought a gun. But Eli kept this as a secret to himself.

Story: Elijah Of Buxton
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Pages: 341