Essay Topics
1.
Brom incorporates a great deal of detail into the historical setting of Sutton. What is the text’s relationship between verisimilitude and fantasy?
2.
Abitha has complicated and often ambivalent feelings about Edward, her husband. Do the events of the novel resolve Abitha’s conflicted feelings about Edward? If so, how?
3.
Abitha is quick to forgive Samson for eating her husband. What does this choice say about Abitha?
