Tom's Midnight Garden | Topics for Discussion
1. In the opening chapter Tom seems sullen and selfish, even rude. Why does the reader feel sympathy for him?
2. What significance does Tom find in the grandfather clock's striking of the thirteenth hour?
3. Why does Abel fear trouble for Hatty when Tom helps her make the bow and arrows?
4. What is Abel's attitude toward Tom? What part does his religious fervor play in forming that attitude?
5. How does Tom resolve in his own mind that troubling issue of whether he or Hatty is actually a ghost?
6. Hatty tells Tom a pretend story about being a...
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