Study questions

On this page, we suggest a number of study questions that can help you get started with your analysis of “Kiss” by Elizabeth Baines. On the following pages, you can read examples and explanations that can help you answer all of these questions.

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Study questions about composition
Study questions about characters
Study questions about setting
Study questions about narrator and point of view
Study questions about theme and message

Study questions about composition

How does the use of flashbacks affect the story? How do the flashbacks help us understand the main characters and their motivations?

What is the effect of the open ending? Why are we not told whether the bomb goes off or not?

Study questions about characters

What did the young woman's father do to her - and why didn't her mother stop it?

What kinds of discrimination has the young man with the dreadlocks faced during his childhood and youth?

What led the young man with the backpack to become a member of an extremist group despite his promising future?

Study questions about setting

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