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Examine disability, as Krueger employs it, in this novel. What liabilities do characters’ disabilities seem to mandate, and what assets do their disabilities provide?
How would the events of this novel be told differently were they to arrive from the perspective of Warren Redstone? Write an epistolary essay from the point-of-view of Redstone which chronicles his time in New Bremen in the summer of 1961.
How does postwar trauma affect the characters in the book who are former soldiers? While PTSD would not yet have been a socially-recognized disorder in 1961, can you seen symptoms of PTSD in the characters in this book?
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By William Kent Krueger