Essay

Choose one of the prompts below and write a 4 paragraph essay in response. Your essay should include an intro and a conclusion as well as a thesis/road map. The road map should include up to three elements and each body paragraph should address one of these elements:

Sister of My Heart

1. The keeping of secrets and the telling of lies play a huge part in the novel. Why are so many secrets kept? What is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni trying to say about the nature of relationships through this motif?

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The Liar's Club

2. Karr tells her story for the most part from the point of view of a child, and what a child sees and understands. How might the story – and Karr's perceptions – change if she had told it from the point of view of an adult, with the benefit of everything she has come to understand about her upbringing and her family? What would be gained, and what would be lost?

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3. Choose one character from each book and explain how she IS or IS NOT a woman of dignity, honor and respect.