These Silent Woods

How do the religious overtones of the novel foreshadow Scotland’s actions at the end? Use specific textual examples of religious themes.

What insights arise from the novel’s use of a first-person narrator? What does the narrative obscure?

One epigraph of the text is a line from Walt Whitman: “I am larger, better than I thought, I did not know I held so much goodness.” Discuss how this quote applies to the text, specifically as it relates to the literary elements of theme and characterization.