Questions to Consider
1.
How are national events used to frame
the novel?
- What role do spiritual values play
in the characters’ lives?
- How does the environment shape the
story?
- Compared to 1973, where are we now
as a people and a nation? What has changed and what has remained the same?
- What do the Native American
characters and the other characters in the story have in common and what
makes them different?
- What role does the various civil
rights struggles—women, Native Americans, Chicano, gay—play in the novel?
- Discuss Lizette’s relationship with
Marian.
- Discuss Lizette’s relationship with
Rocket and with her father.
- What is important to Lizette’s
journey toward a greater sense of well-being?
- What does baby Violet represent in
the novel, actually and symbolically?
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