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Essay Topic 1

DiMartino writes “A common pitfall of prequels? Since the reader already knows how things eventually turn out, they are one step ahead of the hero” (5). How is this a pitfall? What in the novel and in experience suggest as much? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Jianzhu muses that “There was no force in existence stronger than a child’s righteous fury at being robbed” (12). Does the novel bear out the assertion? How so or how not?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of “The Boy from Makapu,” Jianzhu assigns Yun a training exercise (33-34). What does the exercise reveal about their respective characters? How are the revelations put across?

Essay Topic 4

Jianzhu notes that “that’s what justice is. Nothing but the proper consequences” (67). What in the novel and in experience suggest that it is or is not? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 5

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