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By Thomas Harris

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The target audience is adults and young adults the genre is thriller and mystery

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The story is set in multiple places including Baltimore and St. Louis

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The odds are stacked against Clarice Starling from the get-go.

She's one of very few women in the FBI training academy. And, yes, we said "training academy." She isn't even a full-on agent, and she's thrown head first at one of the most dangerous serial killers of our time to catch another killer who doesn't have nearly as good manners. With some help from Hannibal Lecter, Clarice tracks down Buffalo Bill. And although she stumbles upon the true killer by accident, she ends up taking him down all by herself.

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Jack Crawford, the head of the Behavioral Science Unit, is a surrogate father figure to Clarice. He handpicks her to interview Lecter because he sees a special spark in her as a student. When the case quickly spirals out of control, he keeps her on it, and often takes her suggestions into consideration, as a good mentor does. In turn, she wants to impress him. Her own father is dead, so standing out to Jack Crawford will have to do.

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Buffalo Bill, whose real name is Jame Gumb, is a serial killer who kidnaps women. He tortures them in a hole, alternately feeds and starves them, then murders them, skins them, and sews their hides into his very own woman suit. At least he's nice enough to give them lotion to keep them moisturized.

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Clarice needs Hannibal Lecter an institutionalized cannibal  to get into the mind of Buffalo Bill. What she doesn't expect is for Lecter to get into her own mind, too. Lecter not only leads Clarice on a trail of breadcrumbs to the killer, but he forces her to look into her own past and to analyze her own motivations for joining the FBI and wanting so desperately to save Catherine Martin. Not a bad mentor to have in this aspect, as creepy as is.

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Clarice and Agent Crawford are trying to track down and arrest Buffalo Bill
Person(s) vs. Person

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The Rising Action is when Clarice is sent by Jack Crawford to visit Hannibal Lecter

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Lecter observed that "Buffalo Bill" wanted to change his gender. He told Clarice that humans covet what they see everyday. This is how she finds out who Bill is. She interviews those that Bill's first victim knew. This leads to the evidence that the killer's name is Jame Gumb. The FBI then is leading an assault on his known address--three hours away from Starling's location when she is expecting another interview of an older woman at her house who may have known the killer. The door is answered by a middle aged man. It becomes clear that the FBI has the wrong address.
Raspail's Car
Doctor Lecter suggests to look in Benjamin Raspail's car. (Of course in a very witty, figurative way.) Raspail was Lecter's former patient and murder victim. In the car which Clarice spent much time tracking down, Clarice finds the head of Benjamin Raspail's former lover Klaus. Jame Gumb was as well a former lover of Raspail's. Jame decided that he should kill, and flay Klaus out of jealousy. (This is not revealed by Lecter at this time.) The head of Klaus was kept by Raspail as he was slowly becoming insane.

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Cathrine returns home and Clarice kills Buffalo Bill

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Clarice Graduates and Buffalo Bill is dead