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Chris CrutcherStaying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
What role does spirituality play in the novel? How does organized religion help or hinder the students in times of crisis?
The book features numerous parent and child pairs. In what ways do these parents and children connect or fail to connect, and why?
The book tackles the issue of bullying through the experiences of Eric and Sarah. What approaches assist or fail Eric and Sarah as they try to stand up for themselves?
According to the novel, what makes for a productive educational space? What do students need in order to really debate, think freely and learn?
Father figures are significant in the novel. How do fathers help or fail their children?
Many of the students struggle to be heard in the space of the book. Why is that? What, according to the text, might adults need to do in order to empower teens to make wise decisions?
Is the narrator, Eric, a dynamic character? Does he change over the course of the book? What, if anything, does he learn?
How does Eric’s participation on the swim team help him in his various struggles throughout the book?
What gender roles are at work in the novel?
How does the relationship between Sarah and Eric evolve and grow over the course of the narrative?
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