summary on the chapter the cop and the anthem from an alien hand book NCERT
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the cop and the anthem begins with the arrival of winter in new York City .soapy decides he must leave his bench in madison square park and get himself arrested so he will be taken to Blackwell's island where he will be given a warm place .
soapys first effort to get arrested finds him entering an expensive restaurant with hope of ordering a decadent meal and being arrested for"insolvency" . when a waiter spots his frayed trouser ,how ever ,he is thrown off the premises before he could set down.when he then smashes a store Front window with a cobble stone,the responding officer refuses to recognise soapy as the culprit
throughout the story,soapy fails to get arrested not because he can't commit a crime but because other individuals refuse to identify him correctly. a second attempt of scammings restaurant find soapy thrown out of street once again by two waiters and hi effort s to harass a window shopping women suggest to be a prostitude,happily response to his advices . after trying and failing to get arrested for publicly insulting a police officer who mistake soapy for a drunken take students soapy attenpt to steal an umbrella from a well dressed man in cover store only to discover that the man had infact stolen the umbrella himself
discouraged , soapy sulks off and find himself outside the gate of a Church .there,soapy heard a beautiful anthem being played within the church and after listening to this song he resolved to turn his life around and become the functioning member of society once again. however he make his resolution,a police officer arrests him for loitering and he was sentenced toto jail time on blackwells island the following day.