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Essay Topic 1

Choose an object from The Hundred Dresses, such as the wallpaper, the medal, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

Essay Topic 2

What ultimate message is Estes sending about the nature and value of compassion?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Estes’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of The Hundred Dresses.

Essay Topic 4

Sensory details are used frequently by Estes in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Hundred Dresses. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Estes’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 5

Trace the characterization arc of Maddie’s character throughout The Hundred Dresses. Discuss whether Maddie...

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