40 pages 1 hour read

Michael Patrick MacDonald

All Souls: A Family Story From Southie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

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Essay Topics

1.

What role or roles does silence play in the book? Is not snitching a good or a bad thing, to you? Discuss.

2.

Do you believe that the problems Southie faced would have been mitigated if there had been more fathers present? Why or why not?

3.

Mothers who have lost children begin speaking out against the neighborhood’s code of silence: can too much loyalty be a bad thing?