Discussion Questions
Use our LitLovers Book Club Resources; they can help with discussions for any book:
• How to Discuss a Book (helpful discussion tips)
• Generic Discussion Questions—Fiction and Nonfiction
• Read-Think-Talk (a guided reading chart)
But also consider these LitLover talkiing points for The Centaur:
1. What contributes to George Caldwell's poor opinion of himself? Why does he feel he is about to die? Does George exasperate you or inspire sympathy?
2. What is Peter's view of his father? How does that view change during the course of the novel? How does their relationship develop? How are both father and son changed—or what do both come to learn—by the novel's end?
3. What role does the blizzard play in this work?
4. In what way is this story a retelling of the myth of Chiron? According to Greek mythology, a centaur was one of a race of creatures with the head, arms and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse. Chiron was considered the noblest of the centaurs. (if you don't have it in your library, dear reader, do pick up a copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology. It's a must!)
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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