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Essay Topic 1

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Beatryce Prophecy do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

The novel begins with a focus on a goat. What effect does this have for the reader? How does the text support that effect?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s name: Beatryce.

Essay Topic 4

The novel orients itself around a prophetic text: the Chronicles of Sorrowing. What significance inheres in the name of that text? How does the novel support the idea of that significance?

Essay Topic 5

Explicate the significance of the Jack Dory’s name.

Essay Topic 6

Much is made of the blueness of the sky. How does DiCamillo present the color, how does that align with and deviate from typical associations with the color, what...

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