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Call Your Daughter Home
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Essay Topics
Discuss the ways in which the novel’s title, Call Your Daughter Home, is relevant to each of the book’s protagonists.
Research Southern Gothic literature and discuss how this novel fits into the genre. What role do ghosts, spirits, and omens play in the novel?
Silence is enforced in a number of different ways by various characters. How does Alvin compel Gertrude’s silence? How does Edwin do the same to his children? How are the citizens of Branchville complicit in such activities?
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