51 pages 1 hour read

Stephen King, Richard Chizmar

Gwendy's Button Box

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

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Essay Topics

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How does Gwendy’s Button Box use the lore surrounding King and Chizmar’s setting—the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine—to impact the horror-genre elements of their novella?

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How do King and Chizmar identify Frankie Stone as the antagonist of the novella? Compare and contrast Frankie’s character with the novella’s protagonist, Gwendy. In what ways does the tension between them highlight the novel’s thematic exploration of The Murky Line Between Selfishness and Selflessness?

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Choose one of King and Chizmar’s key symbols or motifs from Gwendy’s Button Box and discuss the ways in which the authors use it to support the central themes.

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