The Anniversary
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Content Warning: This section of the guide references sexual violence, graphic violence, and death.
Compare and contrast The Anniversary with David Nicholl’s One Day, a novel that uses a similar structure to tell a contemporary love story.
Does Finlay present Jules’s climactic use of the coin toss as a triumph of justice, or does her adoption of the killer’s ritual suggest a corruption of her morality? Cite specific examples from the text to support your argument.
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