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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi
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55 pages • 1 hour read

Paolo Bacigalupi

The Windup Girl

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

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  • Before You Read

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  • Essay Topics

    • Essay Topics

    1.

    How do environmental conditions influence the action of the novel? 

    2.

    Choose one of the following characters: Emiko, Hock Seng, Kanya, Jaidee, or Akkarat, and discuss this character’s duty (damma) and karma (kamma). 

    3.

    How does Hock Seng’s past in China influence the way he conducts himself in Thailand? Is he still a prisoner of his past?

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