61 pages 2 hours read

Liane Moriarty

Here One Moment

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Essay Topics

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Why might Moriarty have chosen to tell Cherry’s backstory in such detail? Is it important, for instance, to know so much about her marriage to David Smith to understand how she became the “Death Lady?”

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Is Cherry justified in feeling somewhat guilty over the death of Kayla Halfpenny? What does this first death among her prediction “victims” say about The Tension Between Free Will and Destiny?

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Chaos can be defined both as a state of confusion and, within chaos theory, unpredictability in a system such as the atmosphere. How does Cherry’s description of herself as an “agent of chaos” apply to both definitions of the word?