Crow Lake

by Mary Lawson

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Crow Lake Questions and Answers

Can you give me three examples of guilt in Crow Lake?

What are the central conflict and secondary conflict in the novel Crow Lake?

In the novel Crow Lake by Mary Lawson, identify the exposition, initial incident, three or four points of rising action, the climax, and the resolution. Include scenes/events and participants, conflict advancement, and character changes that happened for each plot outline.

How does Crow Lake by Mary Lawson connect to the theme of how the past can affect whom people become as adults? Provide two to three events and two characters in the novel for examples, plus a few quotes to support theme, character, or event.

Guilt is an ongoing theme throughout the novel Crow Lake. How did this feeling affect the children’s relationships and the choices they made immediately following the death of their parents? How did it affect their adult lives? Who would you say was most stricken with this feeling?

Analyze Kate's guilt in the novel Crow Lake.

How do you imagine things would have turned out in Crow Lake if the children had been separated as Aunt Annie had arranged? How do you think it would have benefited and/or impeded their growth as individuals and as a family?

What is your opinion of the idea that the past can affect whom people become as adults as it pertains to the all Morrison siblings in Crow Lake?

What is the psychological and cognitive development of Luke in Crow Lake? 

In what ways can Mary Lawson's Crow Lake be interpreted using a feminist criticism lens, especially with respect to patriarchy, essentialism, irony, androgyny, etc.?