I have sent everyone the meeting address so check your emails! Here are the discussion questions for next week's meeting:
2. Davie doesn't speak for the first third of the book. How does her chosen muteness serve her? How does it continue to affect her personality after she starts speaking again?
3. Davie ends up becoming best friends with her ex-boyfriend. Do you think that exes can really be friends?
4. Many of Davie's worst qualities are also her best qualities. Do you have any experience with vices actually proving to be talents?
5. Davie isn't able to move on with her own life until she confronts the pain of her past, including her relationship with her mother. Is it necessary to face the people who have hurt you most in order to live a full life? What may—or may not—happen if we don't?
6. Do you think that Davie's mother loved her? Do you think that Davie loves her mother? Why is it difficult for people to sometimes show love? What holds them back?
7. At one point Davie insists that she couldn't have acted in any other way because of who she is and the life that she has lived. What does she mean by this? Is our history the most important influence on our future? Can we “will” ourselves into a future much different from our pasts?
8. Davie loves her deceased grandmother very much and mentions her throughout the book. What do you think about her grandmother? Do you feelings change by the end of the book? How do your feelings toward Davie's grandmother change by the end of the book?
9. The author portrays several substitute-family relationships in this book. Discuss these and explore their dynamics. Is it human nature to form these kinds of relationships when real parent-child ones fail?
10. Davie falls so in love with the movie, Sixteen Candles, that it literally changes her life. Has a movie—or other art form such as a play or novel -- ever changed your life in this way? How?
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