70 pages 2 hours read

William Kent Krueger

Ordinary Grace

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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Essay Topics

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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? 

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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.

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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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