Macbeth isn’t the only famous work woven into Everything You Want Me to Be. How do the play’s themes resonate in the book?ģ.
Although the “curse of Macbeth” didn’t kill Hattie, as her classmate suggests early on, the play’s themes, such as the price of unchecked ambition and the difference between appearance and reality, do run throughout Mindy Mejia’s novel. How do her descriptions of the natural world and the change of seasons reflect the internal states of the characters?Ģ. Mindy Mejia grew up in Minnesota and knows its landscape well. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the bookġ. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for Everything You Want Me to Be includes discussion questions and ideas for enhancing your book club.
Does love lead to self-discovery-or destruction? Reading Group Guide Told from three points of view-Del, Hattie, and the new English teacher whose marriage is crumbling- Everything You Want Me to Be weaves the story of Hattie’s last school year and the events that drew her ever closer to her death.Įvocative and razor-sharp, Everything You Want Me to Be challenges you to test the lines between innocence and culpability, identity and deception. It seems that Hattie’s acting talents ran far beyond the stage. Local sheriff Del Goodman, a family friend of the Hoffmans, vows to find her killer, but trying to solve her murder yields more questions than answers. When she’s found brutally stabbed to death on the opening night of her high school play, the tragedy rips through the fabric of her small town community. High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good citizen. Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town’s darkest secrets come to the forefront.and she inches closer and closer to her death.
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