Essay Topic 1
Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of The Wind Knows My Name do so for the present novel? How or how not?
Essay Topic 2
What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 3
What character is the protagonist of The Wind Knows My Name? How does the novel support such an assertion?
Essay Topic 4
Early on, the comment is made that “the crowd’s raw, savage energy was contagious and even exhilarating,” such that a character “had to reject the impulse to transform into a monster, to destroy, burn, and shout till he had no air left in his lungs” (20). What does the comment indicate about mass action? Do the novel and...
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