Hardfought | Topics for Discussion & Projects

Hardfought Topics for Discussion

1. What is meant by "But the Senexi had taken the long view too often in the past"?

2. What purpose does the mutant serve in the narrative? How does it affect the themes of Hardfought?

3. Why are the Prufraxes killed at the end of Hardfought?

4. Why would a government want to keep its people ignorant of history?

5. How well does Bear make Aryzan alien being with very different modes of thought from humans? Is he alien enough?

6. Why do the glovers not rebel instead of continuing to be treated as expendable?

7. Of what value to an individual person is historical truth?

8. Could people lead happy lives without ever knowing the truth about why they do what they do?

9. Governments in wartime restrict public access to information...
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