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Celeste NgA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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ACTIVITY 1: “From Page to Screen”
Celeste Ng makes the choice not to identify the Warrens as African American in Little Fires Everywhere, saying that “I thought of them as people of color, because I knew I wanted to talk about race and class, and those things are so intertwined in our country and in our culture… But I didn’t feel like I was the right person to try to bring a black woman’s experience to the page” in an interview with The Atlantic.
Watch the first and last episodes of Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu, which casts Kerry Washington, a Black woman, as Mia Warren, and think about the following questions:
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