1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Liam. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Regan. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Mr. O'Neill. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

4. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Mrs. O'Neill. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

At breakfast, the reader is introduced to Regan and Liam's parents. This introduction demonstrates the way Dad pressures Liam to fill gender role expectations and the fact that Mom seems somewhat disinterested in and detached from her children. Informing her family that she has to work late, Mom asks Regan to cook dinner, but since Regan is babysitting, Liam offers to do it, causing Dad to claim it is not Liam's job and to glare at Regan.

1. What are Liam's dad's suggestions to Liam that would seem to be pressure to fill Liam's expected gender roles? Use examples from your own life and Luna to support your answer.

2. Discuss the reasons Liam's mother seems to be detached and disinterested in her family. Use examples from your own life and "Luna" to support your answer.

3. Do you think if a boy does not like sports or a girl does not like to wear dresses forcing them into such behavior can change them? Why or why not?

4. Do you think Liam's father is concerned about Liam and this is why he is pressuring him or do you think the father's main concern is how Liam and by extension, the family appears to their peers? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and this story to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Regan remembers an instance from her childhood when Liam begged Mom to remove his penis; she realizes Mom has always known that Liam was really a girl. She does not understand why Mom was not there for Liam. She could have made his life easier by raising him as a girl, but of course, she was scared of Dad's reaction. She should have told Dad so he would not have made Liam feel like a failure as a son. Realizing Mom never questioned the disappearance of her pills that Liam stole for his suicide attempt, Regan suspects her Mom left them out on purpose and begins to fear that her mother is a monster, willing to kill her son because he is actually her daughter.

1. Discuss what might have happened to Liam's mother when he told her to remove his penis that affected her for the rest of her time as a mother. Use examples from your own life and the text to support your answer.

2. Discuss the ways in which Liam's life would have been easier if his mother had raised him as a girl. Use examples from your own life and the novel to support your answer.

3. Do you think Liam's mother wanted Liam to commit suicide? Why or why not? Use examples from your own life and "Luna" to support your answer.

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