52 pages 1 hour read

Mark Z. Danielewski

House Of Leaves

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

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Essay Topics

1.

Discuss the ways in which your experience reading the novel mirrors characters’ experiences in the text. Choose one or two characters to focus on.

2.

House of Leaves contains extensive use of recursion and consecution, in which objects used previously in the text are repeated with some type of variance. Choose two to three images, characters, and/or ideas and discuss their repetition and difference, and the resulting effects.

3.

Who or what is the beast or monster? Use textual evidence to build a case for your answer.