Standard Questions

1. What were your expectations? Did you feel that the book fulfilled your

expectations?

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2. What about the plot? Did it pull you in; or did you feel you had to force

yourself to read the book?

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3. What was your favorite part of the book? Why?

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4. What are some of the book's themes? What was the book about?

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5. How realistic were the characters? Would you want to hang out with any

of the characters? Who, why, why not?

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6. If one (or more) of the characters made a choice that had moral

implications, would you have made the same decision? Why? Why not?

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7. How does the setting figure into the book? Is the setting a character?

Does it come to life?

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8. a) Did you feel you were experiencing the time and place in which the

book was set?

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b) Would the book have been different if it had taken place in a different

time or place?

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9. Are there any images in the book that are symbolically significant? Do

these images help develop the plot, or define characters?

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10. If you were making a movie based closely on this book, who would you

cast as the protagonist and antagonist?

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11. Did the book end the way you expected?

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12. How did the book compare to other books by the author (or other books in

the same genre)?

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13. Would you recommend this book to other readers? To your close friend?

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14. How are the book's images symbolically significant? Do the images help to

develop the plot, or help to define characters?

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15. Will this book be considered a classic 200 years from now? Why?

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