56 pages • 1 hour read
Lisa GenovaStill Alice
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
Much of Still Alice centers on the question of Alice’s identity—not just in her ability to recognize herself, but in her ability to understand and define who she is. What makes us who we are? What is it that defines us?
What function do Alice’s mother, father, and sister play in the larger narrative? What is the symbolic importance of these characters?
In what way(s) are logic and passion in conflict with one another throughout Still Alice? In what way(s) do they overlap?
What statement does the novel make about science? Why is it important that Alice and John are scientists by trade?
In what way(s) did the novel undermine your expectations? In what way(s) did it reinforce them? How does that contribute to your understanding of the meaning of the novel?
What is the role of family in Still Alice?
What statement does Still Alice make about the nature of time? The nature of reality? What role does drama play in this statement?
What are the roles of power and agency in the text? In what way(s) do these concepts conflict with nature?
What are the roles of the individual and the collective in Still Alice? How do they converge and/or diverge? What statement does this intersection make?
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