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64 pages 2 hours read

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1985

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Essay Topics

1.

Compare and contrast the hard-boiled narrator (in odd-numbered chapters) with the narrator at the end of the world (even-numbered chapters)?

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What role does memory play in the formation of identity? How does the novel grapple with this question?

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How does being confronted with his own mortality impact the narrator’s opinions about the nature of existence?

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