The Sense of an Ending Lesson Plan

Does the letter Tony sent to Adrian and Veronica surprise you? Why or why not?

There is no right or wrong answer here. Strong responses will include insightful and critical character analysis and context clues from the text to defend whether or not they are surprised by the cruelty of the letter. Some possible insightful takes students may have are as follows:

• not surprised, because the novel has been clear about pointing out, again and again, the fallibility of memory. So, it may not come as a surprise that Tony falsely remembers his letter as being benign.
• not surprised, because it was clear Tony was quite hurt at the time about his close friend and his ex getting...