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E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

E. LockhartFiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

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Essay Topics

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Compare and contrast the characters of Porter, Matthew, and Alpha, especially focusing on how they both embody and resist patriarchal ideas.

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The novel is narrated by a first-person narrator who has omniscient access to the protagonist. Could Frankie be this narrator? Support or refute this possibility using evidence from the text.

3.

Zada argues that “[the] institutions of male supremacy only have real power over you if you buy into that notion” (202). Does the novel support this view?

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