64 pages • 2 hours read
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985
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Essay Topics
1.
Compare and contrast the hard-boiled narrator (in odd-numbered chapters) with the narrator at the end of the world (even-numbered chapters)?
2.
What role does memory play in the formation of identity? How does the novel grapple with this question?
3.
How does being confronted with his own mortality impact the narrator’s opinions about the nature of existence?
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