The novel raises several important questions for us. One of the most disturbing is the question of how a parent should react when confronted with the possibility that her/his child kills without regret. The other characters are also flawed to various degrees. If we think of good and evil as a continuum, where should we place Christine, Rhoda, Monica, Leroy, the Fern sisters, the Daigles, to name just a few of the individuals we encounter as readers.
Identify two passages that strike you as most significant in the final chapters of the novel? What makes these passages so pivotal to our inquiry? Support your response with pertinent references and examples from the text. Then respond and engage with the posts of others.
