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Stepford Wives

Book Summary   by:facoy     Original Author: anonymous
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Joanna Eberhart is a hard working person and which they call the genius fro she was very successful. She works at a network station. She hosts some t.v. shows, t.v. games such as the Battle of the Sexes. An incident happened which ruined his career. One episode of the Battle of the Sexes, she tried the loyalty of a couple. Actually the title of the show is "I can do better", which tells the viewers that women can do better than men or if men can do it, women also can. The couple''s name were Hank and Barbara. They have been separated for weeks with somebody else. It turned out that Hank was loyal to his wife while Barbara said that she enjoyed more with other guys than being with his husband. Because of the incident in the show, Hank went to the live show of Joanna and tried to shot her. Luckily she wasn''t hurt but the station didn''t like it. So they decided to pull out Joanna Eberhart from the station which affected her so much. Joanna have a husband named Walter with two kids, Pete and Kimberly. Walter love her wife so much so he decided to resign at the network station as well. Walter saw her wife very affected so he decided to move to Connecticut at Stepford County. They were welcome by Mrs. Wellington. Their house there has a touch screen control system. It was so high tech. They also have a puppy robot by the name of Robo Robot 3000. The village was so high maintenance that they even have a place for wives and husbands separately. The wives had this place which they call the Simply Stepford day Spa which have a touch screen built in radio where they had their some kind of aerobics. While the husbands have their association headed by Mike Wellington, Mrs. Wellington''s husband. They celebrate the 4th of July in Stepford. Joanna met her favorite author, Bobbie Markowitz and her husband, while Dave, Bobbie''s husband met Roger an architect and a lawyer. They were dancing when something happened that made Joanna curious. One of the wives suddenly keep turning and turning around. Then fell down that she seemed like a robot that suddenly collapsed. Joanna tried to help Sara Sunderson but she was told that Sara was ok.
She wasn''t even allowed to check if Sara was ok or even take a peek at her while Mike was looking after her. One time Joanna and her friends went to Sara''s house and found out that Sara is being controlled by her husband via a remote control. As time goes by, Walter''s mind was being poisoned by the other husbands until Walter knew what was happening to the other women. Until Joanna researched about the said women in the internet and saw that all the women were the successful women before. It was like what exactly happened to her. She was wondering why they suddenly change. When Joanna and Bobbie peeked inside the men''s house they saw family portraits. Their friend Roger who was a fagot suddenly change. When Joanna decided to leave stepford, look for her children and tried to bring them with her, she knew that her husband brought it with him. so she immediately went to the men''s house and after it everything changed. They knew that women in stepford where behaving like that because they were enhance in the female enhancing machine but must importantly is chips were placed in their brain so that their husband''s can control them. After that Joanna became one of the wives. She acts and dresses like them. Until one night, Mrs. Wellington threw a big ball for Joanna and Walter as the new members of their community. Joanna tried to seduce Mike so that Walter can go to the control room to bring back the other women to normal. Joanna wasn''t really changed. That was their plan. At the end they found out that the idea was from Mrs. Wellington and that his husband was a robot. And everything went back to normal. Joanna became more popular as well as Bobbie and Roger.
Published: December 29, 2007   
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