48 pages 1 hour read

Becky Chambers

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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Essay Topics

1.

Corbin’s unilateral decision to force the cure onto Ohan violates the Sianat’s bodily autonomy, but the new, Solitary Ohan seems glad to be free of the Whisperer. Does this happy outcome change the ethics of Corbin’s decision?

2.

The crew features two pansexual relationships, one between Sissix and Rosemary and the other between Jenks and Lovey. How do the differences between these two relationships show the diversity of pansexual romance? What commonalities do they share?

3.

Rosemary’s xenophilia is most obvious in her relationship with Sissix, but how else does it manifest?