Show Boat is a novel that follows the lives of the owners and actors of the Cotton Blossom Floating Palace Theatre, a popular steamboat known along the Mississippi River. The Cotton Blossom is lead by fun-loving and light-hearted Captain Andy Hawks. His wife, the stubborn and steadfast puritan woman, Parthy Ann, and the Captain raise their only daughter, Magnolia, on the steamboat around tales of piracy and scoundrels. Magnolia, an imaginative and impressionable child, loved everything about river life and acting in magnificent plays. The acting troupe on board consists of Julie and Steve, lovers ‘til the end and Elly with sweetheart Schultzy, who oft’ times directs. Years after a troubling ordeal that leaves Magnolia scared,we
