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1. In what time periods are the characters situated?
2. What are the icons heading each chapter that denote the character?
3. The main characters are Jordan and a giantess who is compared to what animal?
4. Winterson re-writes history and embellishes it with magic realism. She also re-writes a famous fairytale which grants more female autonomy to an otherwise patriarchal story. Which fairytale does she re-write?
5. What magical talent does the elusive Fortunata have?
6. What disasters coincide in different centuries in the novel?
7. Whose dismembered body parts does the monstrous female protagonist collect?
8. What body part does she collect in large quantities?
9. Winterson's narrative style in "Sexing the Cherry" is very similar to Nights at the Circus, which depicts a giantess much like Winterson's portagonist, who performs in the cirus along with a motley crew in the 19th Century. Which author wrote ths precursor to "Sexing the Cherry"?
10. This may be a bit more difficult. Winterson uses the worldview of a particular tribe as paradigm for her collapsing of space and time throughout the novel. For instance, both centuries are presented as simultaneous epochs. Jordan discusses this tribe in his speculations on the nature of the jouney and the tribe is also mentioned in an inscription before the first chapter. What tribe has no tenses for past, present, and future?
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