Topics of Conversation Short Essay - Answer Key

Popkey, Miranda
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Topics of Conversation Short Essay - Answer Key

Popkey, Miranda
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1. Discuss the epigraph Miranda Popkey includes prior to the start of the novel Topics of Conversation.

The epigraph Popkey includes is a quote from one of Sylvia Plath's many surviving journal entries. Popkey chooses a quote that focuses on uncertainty and the way in which a story's ending often supersedes everything that has come before it.

2. For what reason was the narrator in Italy in the summer of 2000?

The unnamed narrator arranged to work for her friend Camila's family during the summer of 2000. Because she worked as the nanny of the Perez family's two young boys, the unnamed narrator's trip was taken care of by Artemisia and her husband Pablo.

3. For what reason did the unnamed narrator see little of Camila during the trip to Italy?

When everyone arrived in Italy for the Perez family's vacation, Camila made it clear to the unnamed narrator that she did not intend to hang around her little brothers during her whole vacation, even if it meant that she could not hang out with the unnamed narrator, who was working as the boys' nanny.

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