50 pages 1 hour read

Barbara Kingsolver

Flight Behavior

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

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Essay Topics

1.

Discuss the significance of the book’s title. How are the concepts and imagery of flight represented throughout the text?

2.

In what ways do the characters’ names represent aspects of their personalities and attitudes?

3.

Review Dellarobia’s discovery of the monarch butterflies in Chapter 1. Where does she see similarities between herself and the insects? How do they impact her life? Are the butterflies representative of a vision or miracle, as proclaimed by the town church?