Cal Lesson Plan

What do we learn about Cal in Chapter 3, and how does this change your view of him (if it does at all)?

In Chapter 3 of Cal, the story clarifies many of our questions, leading to perhaps a new perspective on the protagonist as more complex than we initially thought. In the last pages of the chapter, Cal remembers back to a year earlier, when he was an accomplice to a crime for the movement. It is not just any petty misdemeanor, but something so serious that it still weighs on him to this day, and probably will stick with him for the “rest of his life.” He helped Crilly as a driver in the killing of Robert Morton, a police officer and the husband of Marcella. It now...