The Sea Study Guide consists of approx. 57 pages of summaries and analysis on The Sea by John Banville. Browse the literature study guide below:
This poetically written novel takes the form of a series of journal entries, written by a lonely middle-aged man as he spends what he sees as his final days in a guesthouse near the scene of a tragedy in his childhood. Themes relating to the nature of identity and of death are explored as the narrator's past and present intertwine in an experience of life both haunting and inescapable. (
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Section 1: Part 1 (pp. 3-18) Section 1: Part 2 (pp. 18-32) Section 1: Part 3 (pp. 32-52) Section 1: Part 4 (pp. 52-68) Section 1: Part 5 (pp. 68-93) Section 1: Part 6 (pp. 93-97) Section 2: Part 1 (pp. 101-119) Section 2: Part 2 (pp. 109-136) Section 2: Part 3 (pp. 136-148) Section 2: Part 4 (pp. 148-163) Section 2: Part 5 (pp. 163-182) Section 2: Part 6 (pp. 182-195)
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