Narration
The perspective of the Narrator
What is third person?
The main object referred to in the story
The way the story is structured
What is not chronological?
Who is Louisa?
How do the different characters view the flashlight?
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The way a lot of it is told through
What are memories?
How does the focus on a ten year old shape the biases towards other characters?
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How does Louisa's view of the flashlight change throughout the story and what does it teach us about her?
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"'Someday you’ll feel thankful to your mother. But I want you to act thankful now.'
These are the last words he ever says to her.
(Or are they just the last words that she can remember? Did he say something more? There is no one to ask.)
Louisa lay awake, staring into the dark. The ceiling showed itself in a narrow stripe of light--first sharp like a blade and then becoming softer and softer--which began at the doorframe, where the door was very slightly cracked open. The door was cracked open because Louisa was afraid of the dark. She didn’t use to be."
Why did Choi juxtapose these two moments and how does it help us understand Louisa?
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"A stupid girl named Dawn Delavan had brought little blue plastic elf figurines, each with a different absurd attribute like a wizard’s hat, a paintbrush, or a harp, to the classroom each day, and though these had disappeared one at a time, Dawn Delavan had never learned to stop bringing them; she just fussed and cried to their teacher, Miss Prince, while Miss Prince trained her cold steady gaze on Louisa."
Louisa likes to control things, something we see through being able to read her thoughts. What do you think caused this and how does it frame the story?
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We see the flashlight fall multiple times (silently on the sand, like a gunshot in the therapists office, and off of her bed making "such a bang that her mother and her aunt gasped and froze"). What does the falling of the flashlight symbolize?
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