The Shadows: A Novel

Analyze how the novel’s dual narrative structure, which alternates between Paul and Amanda’s perspectives, creates a more complete and complex understanding of the traumatic events in Gritten than either perspective could alone.

How do the secretive parental actions of Daphne Adams and Carl Dawson inadvertently mythologize Charlie Crabtree and fuel the novel’s cycle of violence?

In the Gothic literary tradition, settings often reflect the psychological states of characters. Analyze how the town of Gritten, and particularly the woods known as the Shadows, function as a Gothic landscape in the novel.