56 pages 1 hour read

Wendy Mass

Every Soul a Star

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

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Essay Topics

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The story is told through alternating chapters with no overarching narrator. Each narrator tells their own story, and yet together the three narrators create a unified story. Select a scene or two to show how this technique works and then analyze the thematic implications of an ensemble narrative

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Explore the symbolism of each of Moon Shadow’s tourist sites, which Ally calls The Unusuals. How does each site contribute to an understanding of the novel’s theme about growing up?

3.

Define the importance of change in the novel as a coming-of-age narrative. How do each of the three narrators change? How do they help each other in that difficult process?

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