Complete your notes table: chapters 1-6

Which of the chapters do you feel is most important for:

Introducing the narrator?Use of time?

Importance of setting?Moving the narrative forward?

Most interesting from a readers perspective?

What themes are emerging?

• Love – unrequited, infatuation, obsessive, romantic.

• Science and religion – opposites, but this novel focuses on some of the similarities (evangelism of ideas).

• Appearance and reality – Joe’s prjections and interpretations of the truth

• Fear – homophobia? Sexuality? Difference? Mental illness?

Chapter 7

Joe and Jed meet outside the apartment

• What do we learn about Jed's feelings for Joe?• What different reactions does Joe experience

during their conversation?