I really enjoyed the journey and I’d love to have students try some reality-bending writing of their own in a creative response. Look Who’s Morphing takes off from the ordinary into a dizzy world of altered states that takes the reader on a spin. Another aspect of the book that really flies for me is the fantasy – so liberating. I’d definitely have the class study “The Sound Of Music.” Apart from being hilarious, which is a big part of the book’s appeal, it really illustrates your point that we are all altered quite profoundly by the culture we live in and that identity is a shifting state. The narrator’s family is loving but constraining, and that would start some good discussion. I’d start with your first story, “Dirty Dancing,” where adolescence is seen as a leaping morph into freedom. I haven’t taught a class since I retired so I’m quite delighted by your question. So if you were back at our school and teaching my book, what matters would you be bringing to the students’ attention? This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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