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Deliverance Topics for Further Study

Research the Depression-era Tennessee Valley Authority dam project, referred to in the novel as TVA. Report on how river damming affects rural life.

In the end, Ed Gentry returns to his artistic interests, producing collages from newspaper pictures. Paste together a collage that you feel represents this novel, with pictures and headlines that capture the essence of particular moments.

When he is taking aim at the mountain man, Ed explains that one must aim higher than seems necessary when one is shooting from above their target. Explain this fact.

"I think machines are going to fail, the political systems are going to fail, and a few men are going to take to the hills and start over," Lewis tells Ed early in the story Today, this view is even more prevalent in our society than it was when this novel was written. Research a separatist militia that...
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