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The Importance of Family

Create a list of the different characters and each of their importance to each other. Identify the characters' priorities to their family or close friends.

Dealing Properly with Pain

List the three characters of Blandine, Joan, and Moses. Identify how these three characters experience great pain in their lives, and how they deal with it in different ways.

Work of Art

Create an artistic work in any medium depicting an interesting scene, setting, or character in the novel.

Short Story

Research the book and find the different settings that are portrayed and compose a short story that is set in the town of Vacca Vale.

Alternate Ending/Epilogue

Have students rewrite the end of the novel so that it concludes differently, or write an epilogue which further explains what happens to Blandine after the end of the novel.

Performance

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