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1) Adam Thorpe goes to great lengths to convince us of the authenticity of his characters and their experiences. Why is this approach important to Thorpe and does it tell us anything about what he is trying to achieve with his novel? Why does the author himself appear as a character in the last four pages of the book?2)Shutteruses the most detached narrative device of the first half ofUlverton, yet its narrator is a character who eagerly aims for verisimilitude. Does this chapter reveal more about the author's concerns than the more representative and traditionally narrated chapters that precede it?3)Ulvertonadopts a wide variety of different genres to tell its tales. How does the style of each chapter affect our experiences of the drama that unfolds? And, in a more general sense, what is the affect of the continual shifts in style that we experience as we read the book?4) The chapter in letter,Leeward, narrates the drama of a mother imprisoned in a room in 1743. Like many of the chapters it highlights the appalling plight of women throughout the history of the village. What other examples are there of the abhorrent treatment of women in the book? Does the lot of women improve the novel progresses, or do women continue to suffer?5) One of Thorpe's themes is the nature of history and how private individuals rather than public figures experience it. Is a consistent view of the effects of passing time and the impact of history on the community expressed inUlverton?6) There are many tragic instances in the novel that are underpinned with a humourous tone. Look at some of the passages that are funny. Do they relate to tragic or genuinely funny incidents? Does the nature of the humour tell us anything about the English temperament?7) The final chapter solves a crime that was committed 338 years earlier in the first chapter. DoesUlvertonoperate on the level of a crime, suspense or mystery novel either within individual episodes or over its whole structure?

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