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40 pages 1 hour read

Michael Patrick MacDonald

All Souls: A Family Story From Southie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

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Essay Topics

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What role or roles does silence play in the book? Is not snitching a good or a bad thing, to you? Discuss.

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Do you believe that the problems Southie faced would have been mitigated if there had been more fathers present? Why or why not?

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Mothers who have lost children begin speaking out against the neighborhood’s code of silence: can too much loyalty be a bad thing?

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