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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Study Guide

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by Alan Garner
About 12 pages (3,469 words)
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1. What differences are there between the characters of Susan and Colin? How are these differences shown? Are they more or less clear than the character differences between Gowther and Bess Mossock?

2. What is left out of Garner's account of Susan and Colin? For instance, why do they make no friends their own age?

Why do they never fight? What else that is important in the lives of real children does Garner simplify or omit?

3. Consider this description of Grimnir: "He is, or was, a man. Once he studied under the wisest of the wise,.....

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The Weirdstone of Brisingamen 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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