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?

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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?