The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

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1. What is the significance of the coin in the novel?
2. What is the significance of the worm?
3. Who is Ursula Monkton and what is her role in the story? Use evidence to support your claims.
4. What are the hunger birds? What do they eat?
5. What happens to Lettie near the end of novel?
6. What is the narrator's function in the novel? What purpose does he serve?
7. The novel is bookended in the present, as a grown man (our unnamed protagonist) returns to the Hempstock's land. What is the significance and function of these two present scenes?
8. Choose two of the approaches listed of the approaches listed in the Week 16 readings page and apply them to the novel. Explain how each of the two you choose could be used as lenses through which to read the novel. Use quotes from the novel to support your application of each of the two approaches.