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“Angel is an archetypal anti-hero. How do Angel’s actions play into the role of anti-hero? How do Angel’s actions play against this role?
How does Bacigalupi integrate real-world research into the novel?
Compare and contrast Lucy and Maria as characters.
Some have classified the novel into a genre called climate-fiction. Do you believe the primary role of fiction should be to inform or to entertain the reader?
What are examples of Bacigalupi combining the genres of climate-fiction, thriller, and noir in the novel?
Describe Lucy’s motivations for not leaving Phoenix, even though she is in danger by staying there.
Does Toomie’s character represent a stereotype? Why or why not?
At the end of the novel, do you think Angel is going to be able to deliver on what he’s promised to Maria, Toomie, and Lucy? Why or why not?
Do you think a future like the one Bacigalupi imagines in The Water Knife is possible for us, given the current state of climate change? Why or why not?
Angel has a worldview that anticipates evil out of everyone. He assumes that people are generally evil at their core because people always prove him right. Do you agree with this worldview? Why or why not?”
― Study Guide: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
How does Bacigalupi integrate real-world research into the novel?
Compare and contrast Lucy and Maria as characters.
Some have classified the novel into a genre called climate-fiction. Do you believe the primary role of fiction should be to inform or to entertain the reader?
What are examples of Bacigalupi combining the genres of climate-fiction, thriller, and noir in the novel?
Describe Lucy’s motivations for not leaving Phoenix, even though she is in danger by staying there.
Does Toomie’s character represent a stereotype? Why or why not?
At the end of the novel, do you think Angel is going to be able to deliver on what he’s promised to Maria, Toomie, and Lucy? Why or why not?
Do you think a future like the one Bacigalupi imagines in The Water Knife is possible for us, given the current state of climate change? Why or why not?
Angel has a worldview that anticipates evil out of everyone. He assumes that people are generally evil at their core because people always prove him right. Do you agree with this worldview? Why or why not?”
― Study Guide: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
“Much of the book’s imagery tells a story without needing language to convey the emotion.”
― Study Guide: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
― Study Guide: They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
“If they could lay hands on the man who was trying to set them free and lead them up, they would kill him.” (Paragraph 29, Line 10) This is one of the more intriguing lines from the first half of the essay, and it gains special significance, falling as it does just before the page break that separates the first half from the second half. The violence invoked here helps amplify the resistance to change that can be a wise ruler’s most strident enemy. Because the transition from light to dark was so difficult and disorienting, the difficulty in communicating across that transition can be dangerous, even deadly, which ups the stakes of the essay significantly, despite the hypothetical nature of it thus far.”
― Study Guide: Allegory of the Cave by Plato
― Study Guide: Allegory of the Cave by Plato
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