1. What is the Merlin Effect? How does it affect each of the characters in the story?
2. Choice is an important theme in the story. What choices do Kate, Merlin, Jim, and Terry make throughout the story? Why is Merlin's Horn so tied to choice?
3. Does Kate think power is important?
How is power represented in the story?
4. When Isabella asks Kate what her goals are, Kate tells her she would like to create something. When Kate chooses to return the Horn to the ocean, what do you think she has decided about her goals?
5. Barron uses figurative language to create the setting and characters in this story. Find examples of figurative language.....
This is a free excerpt of 121 words. This section contains 230 words. This
Short Guide contains 3,769 words (approx. 13 pages at 300
words per page).
Read the rest of this Short Guide with our The Merlin Effect Access Pass.