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Holly Jackson

Kill Joy

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 2021

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Essay Topics

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Examine Pip as a character. What are her strengths and weaknesses? What is her character arc, and how does she change?

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How does the author, Holly Jackson, use descriptive language and other literary devices to heighten the sense of tension and danger in the narrative? In what ways does she conform to, or diverge from, common tropes in the murder-mystery genre?

3.

An important theme in the text is the lasting impacts of major events on a town’s collective memory. How is this idea explored as the characters play the murder-mystery game?

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