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Chris CrutcherA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
T.J.’s real first name is “The Dao.” What is Crutcher’s rhetorical purpose in giving him this name? What ideas about the world is Crutcher trying to express through T.J. and his experiences?
Teaching Suggestion: This prompt asks students to consider what Crutcher is trying to accomplish by choosing T.J.’s unusual first name. As this is a fairly abstract question to consider, the bulleted sub-questions are provided to give more concrete thinkers a step-by-step way to connect the specific characters and events in Crutcher’s book with the more abstract ideas of Daoism. If your students are well-practiced in answering abstract questions like this, you might omit the bulleted guide questions to provide them with more of a challenge. Before students respond to this prompt, you may wish to briefly review the ideas of Daoism, wu wei, and yin-yang.
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