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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi
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55 pages • 1 hour read

Paolo Bacigalupi

The Windup Girl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

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  • Summary

    • Chapter Summaries & Analyses

  • Chapters 1-3

  • Chapters 4-6

  • Chapters 7-9

  • Chapters 10-12

  • Chapters 13-15

  • Chapters 16-18

  • Chapters 19-21

  • Chapters 22-24

  • Chapters 25-27

  • Chapters 28-30

  • Chapters 31-33

  • Chapters 34-36

  • Chapters 37-39

  • Chapters 40-42

  • Chapters 43-45

  • Chapters 46-48

  • Chapter 49-Epilogue

  • Character Analysis

  • Themes

  • Symbols & Motifs

  • Important Quotes

  • Essay Topics

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  • Discussion Questions

    • Essay Topics

    1.

    How do environmental conditions influence the action of the novel? 

    2.

    Choose one of the following characters: Emiko, Hock Seng, Kanya, Jaidee, or Akkarat, and discuss this character’s duty (damma) and karma (kamma). 

    3.

    How does Hock Seng’s past in China influence the way he conducts himself in Thailand? Is he still a prisoner of his past?

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