Fiction Topics
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FICTION TOPICS
- How does the book make you feel?
- Have you ever had similar experiences?
- Does the book remind you of another book?
- What does this story make you think or wonder about?
- Could the setting be a real place that exists in our time?
- Is the place important to the story? Why?
- What can you hear, see, feel, or smell as you read?
- In another time or place, how would the story change?
- Are there any powerful characters in the story? What makes them that way?
- Who is the most interesting character? Why?
- Who is the bravest character? Why?
- Which character taught you the most? What did that character teach you?
- How does one of the character change? Why?
- Which character change and which don’t?
- How is character development important in the story?
- Are the characters believable? Why or why not?
- How did the author begin the story to engage the reader?
- What is the story problem? How do you think it will be solved?
- What challenges do the characters encounter and how do they deal with them?
- How does a character’s actions affect other people in the story?
- What is the high point of the story?
- What the book is about
- How the book reminds you of another book
- How the book makes you feel
- How the author describes things
- Whether you like the book or not and why
- Why you think the author wrote the book
- Why you chose the book
- How you feel about the author’s writing
- Whether or not you would recommend the book to another reader
- Why you abandoned a book
- What you predict will happen
- What you would change about the book
- Examples of stereotypes or bias
- What you find interesting
- What you are wondering about
- Whether the book is easy, just right, or challenging and how you can tell
- About the genre
- What you think is the author’s message
- What books you look forward to reading
- What you don’t understand or questions you have
- How you feel about a character
- What you notice about the author’s style/ language
- Something about the author and what it has to do with the story
- What you like/ dislike about the setting
- How the setting affects the characters
- About good word choices/ special characters
- What you think about the author’s lead
- How the author captured your interest
- If you were the author, would you have ended the story in a different way?
- How was the story resolved?
- What lesson does the story teach about life?
- What are the most important events in the story?
- What is the author’s message?
- What does the story mean to you?
- Who tells the story? Is this the best person to tell it? Why?
- What other voices could tell the story?
- What arew some interesting words, phrases, or sentences?
- What images did the writing evoke?
- How did the author use language to evoke images?
- Would you read other books by this author? Why or why not?
- What did the author have to know to write this book?