74 pages • 2 hours read
Glennon Doyle (Melton)A 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.
Discuss the significance of the title of Glennon Doyle’s memoir. How does the title embody the major themes of Doyle’s work?
Analyze how Doyle chooses to organize her memoir. How is each part connected? How does each part work together to convey a larger message?
Examine Doyle’s relationship with religion. How does this relationship change throughout the course of the memoir? What role does religion play in Doyle’s life?
Discuss Doyle’s development as an activist. What leads to her growth as an activist? How do the difficulties she encounters in her journey contribute to her personal development?
Discuss how Doyle structures time in her memoir. What is the effect of this structure? How does this structure influence the memoir’s greater themes?
Doyle examines the ways in which women contribute to their own and other women’s confinement. Analyze the arguments Doyle makes for how women contribute to the confinement of themselves and other women. Do you agree or disagree with Doyle’s claims? Why or why not?
Intertextuality is the shaping of a text’s meaning through the inclusion of another text. How does Doyle use intertextuality in her memoir? How is the meaning of her memoir shaped through these moments of intertextuality?
What purpose does Doyle’s Epilogue serve? How does the Epilogue connect to the other parts of the memoir?
By Glennon Doyle (Melton)
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