75 pages • 2 hours read
Jesmyn WardSing, Unburied, Sing
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
Discuss Ward’s use of rotating first-person narratives in the novel. Why do you think she chooses to tell the story in this way?
Compare and contrast the first and last chapters of the novel. What, if anything, has changed? In what ways does that reflect the novel’s themes?
Several characters in the novel have meaningful names: Pop’s name (“River”) connects him to the novel’s water motif; Jojo is named after the racist grandfather who rejects him; and Leonie insists on calling Kayla “Michaela” to underscore her relationship to Michael. How does Ward use names to develop the work’s overall meaning?
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