Hello again book club members! We hope you are ever -more engrossed in Treasuring Grace and enjoying your summer read. Below are the discussion questions for Chapters 10 and 11, with the authors insights in the Spoiler Alerts below.
In Chapter 10, how is Liz ’s
subconscious trying to shake her from her delusion?
In her dream, her grandfather is telling her to go back
to reality and that Grace is gone. She’s also hurting herself by
squeezing the pin which should be drawing her attention to the pin and
what it represents.
In
Chapter 11, after Jake jumps back in the car, Alyssa says that he should become
a doctor. Can you think of a reason why he is objecting to this?
SPOILER ALERT
In
Chapter 11, after Jake jumps back in the car, Alyssa says that he should become
a doctor. Can you think of a reason why he is objecting to this?
He
says that there are things a doctor has to do that he couldn’t do. He’s
referring to abortions.
There
are other very subtle references to abortion that could easily be missed. Did
you notice any in the book so far?
Well,
these are subtle, and I would strenuously object if I was reading the book and
being graded on it. However, earlier in Chapter 11, Alyssa concludes that
Jake is adopted and Scott agrees. Liz
asks, “Scott how could you deny your own son?” Before that,
at the end of Chapter 6, Scott decides to direct Alyssa’s jokes toward
Jake with the narrator concluding: “Paternal instincts sometimes lost to
the drive for self-preservation, even when it was just to avoid a little
difficulty.” That is unfair on a number of levels. It is very
subtle to recognize, but it’s also, in many cases, an unfair
characterization of a father’s reason to pursue an abortion. However,
at times in addition to the ignorance that it’s a life and the enormity of
that implication, there can be an element of selfishness.
Read Chapters 12 -14
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