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What Happens in Paradise
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Essay Topics
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death.
How do Rosie’s first-person journal entries function narratively to complicate Russ’s characterization beyond that of a simple antagonist? How does Russ’s portrayal evolve from Winter in Paradise to the second novel in the series? Cite specific examples from the text to support your argument.
Examine how Baker and Cash each attempt to reconstruct their identities in St. John. How do their respective approaches to work, family, and romance represent different responses to their father’s legacy of betrayal and secrecy?
The novel uses St. John as a setting that is simultaneously a tropical paradise and a criminal underworld. How does this duality allow Hilderbrand to explore The Tension Between Objective Fact and Emotional Reality?
