Response paper for Week 11 Ian McEwan: The Cement Garden

Read the chapters 9 and 10, then choose ONE of the following questions and answer it in
300-400 words, using the text to support your ideas:
1. In the final three chapters of the novel, the new family roles of Jack, Julie, Sue and Tom are becoming
more and more clearly identified. Discuss the individual roles; does anyone play a double role?
2. As the novel draws to its finale, is Jack’s relationship with Julie becoming clearer or more complicated?
3. Analyze Jack’s dreams not as an expression of his subconscious fears as desires but as literary devices.
4. Who is Jack really having sex with in the final scene of the novel?
5. Does the novel have a happy ending or not?