![]() Croix mansion in old Charleston, Will meets Annie Kate Gervais, a Charleston girl hiding from local society because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Croix, the straightforward Mark Santoro, and the astonishingly strong Dante “Pig” Pignetti-return to campus. Will’s three roommates-the mannered and wealthy Tradd St. He is placed in charge of Pearce, the Institute’s first and only black student, as the administrators fear that Pearce may be the target of racist violence. Will arrives back at school before the rest of the class, as he has been chosen to address the freshman class on the college’s standards of honor and integrity. Will is in his senior year at the school, having survived the notoriously hellish “plebe” (the Institute’s term for freshman) year. ![]() ![]() In the first part, titled “The Cadre,” the reader is introduced to life at the Carolina Military Institute, a Charleston, South Carolina military college, and to Will, a sensitive English major. ![]()
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