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Essay Topic 1

Gender roles are expectations and behaviors a society has for people based on their gender—male or female. In When Women Were Dragons, gender roles force women to play subservient roles and limit the opportunities they have to direct their lives. How do gender roles affect women and girls in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. Points of view are used in When Women Were Dragons? How do these viewpoints influence what readers know about events and characters? How do they help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 3

In media res is the technique of beginning a story with a pivotal point or a situation that is the end to a series of events. Where does Branhill begin the story? How does she plunge into the situation with...

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