46 pages 1 hour read

Jessica Knoll

Luckiest Girl Alive

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

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Essay Topics

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What is the importance of a name? Make an inventory of all the names the narrator uses. How does the novel use these identities to track the narrator’s emotional movement toward the dramatic closing declaration?

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Research J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. How does that novel inform the narratives of both Ani Fanelli and Arthur Finnerman? Who is the biggest phony in the novel?

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The novel works to humanize the school shooters. Explore the characters of Arthur Finnerman and Ben Hunter. How do they both fit and challenge the psychological profile of school shooters in the post-Columbine era?

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