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Sirena Study Guide

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by Donna Jo Napoli
About 14 pages (4,127 words)
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Napoli divides her novel into five parts, each describing Sirena's moral growth. Deception, Honesty, the Years, Immortality, and Choices chronicle Sirena's struggle to best her destiny.

As an adolescent imagining her future, preparing to follow the path all Sirens must take to attain immortality, Sirena, like her sisters, thought nothing of the consequences that might accompany her bid for immortality. When she realizes that by her action others, innocents, might die, she makes the conscious choice to deny herself. She chooses to live alone, rather than lose her soul......

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Sirena from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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