The Great Gilly Hopkins | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Trace Gilly Hopkins's development as a character by examining her use of similes and metaphors. How does her use of figurative language underscore her changing picture of the world and her relationship with those around her?
2. From the evidence in the novel, reconstruct the first eleven years of Gilly's life. Does such a reconstruction explain why she is so angry?
3. "Galadriel" (Gilly's full name) comes from J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings, which Miss Harris sends to Gilly in Virginia. After Gilly has read the books, she knows who...
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