49 pages 1 hour read

Kimi Cunningham Grant

These Silent Woods

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.

Essay Topics

1.

How do the religious overtones of the novel foreshadow Scotland’s actions at the end? Use specific textual examples of religious themes.

2.

What insights arise from the novel’s use of a first-person narrator? What does the narrative obscure?

3.

One epigraph of the text is a line from Walt Whitman: “I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.” Discuss how this quote applies to the text, specifically as it relates to the literary elements of theme and characterization.