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Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the novel’s title.

Essay Topic 2

Readerly attention focuses on the following passage:

Special needs, I was thinking. I don’t like that term. It sounds so…so…vague. It’s like people without special needs decided that if they made the term vague enough, it wouldn’t hurt anybody’s feelings. But when you’re the person the term is used for, it makes you feel less than yourself. It makes me feel less than myself. Yeah, I’m special. And yes, I have needs. But don’t make that my label (20).

What purpose does the passage serve in the novel, and how is that purpose enacted?

Essay Topic 3

Much of the novel focuses on the protagonist living with cerebral palsy. How might the novel have been different if the protagonist have a different condition, and why might it be different...

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