Chapter Three: The Quick and the Dead

Pre-Reading Discussion:

• Have you ever experienced a sudden change in environment or surroundings? How did you deal with these changes?
• Where do you think Ginnie will end up? What will she be thinking?

Vocabulary:

• conspicuous (p.54)
• irreverent (p.63)
• flagrant (p.66)
• subversive (p.66)
• mercy (p.76)

Read:

Chapter Three

Post-Reading Discussion:

• How do you feel about Ginnie’s first interactions with the Quicks and their friends? What things are going through her mind?
• Why do you think Cary choose to have this first meeting take place in a cemetery?