Essay Topic 1
As a book in a series, The Book of Magic necessarily relies on earlier information to make itself make sense. What information is missing from the present novel that would clarify it? How do you know?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator comments that “Curses are like knots, the more you struggle to be free, the tighter they become, whether they’re made of rope or spite or desperation [sic]” (4-5). Does the novel bear out the comment? How or how not?
Essay Topic 3
Readerly attention focuses on the following passage: “Franny understood this was how loss began. She had been here before, but then, like anyone else, she had forgotten this is what happened, that things ended when you least expected them to, that you could not protect those you loved from nature and fate” (18). What in the novel and in experience support the passage? How do...
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