After looking at the online description and the brainstorming that my group did, I have several thoughts that I was considering analyzing for my paper.  My paper is going to be based on the book Disgrace alone.  One of the ideas that
I have considered doing is a paper based the idea of the the constant changing of roles in the book.  The Opera and the  switching of the roles of byron and the other characters between David, Lucy and Mealanie.  I would also go into the reversal of roles in terms of predator and prey, considering david went from the agressor to the victim.  And the switching of the roles from the parent becoming the child and the child becoming the parent throughout the book.  I would use specific passages from the book to back up each of the role reversals I am arguing. 

Another idea I am considering is how important events in a book have the ability to bring characters together and at the same time drive them apart.   An example of this is how David retreated to Lucy after his dismissal at the school, but because of what happened to Lucy the incident involving Mealanie and David made Lucy see a whole other side of her father.  The incident at the farm that they both went through (not physically the same however) together does drive a stake into the relationship between them changing them as characters in the remainder of the book.  Specific pages, passages and quotes would be used to back up my argument as evidence. 

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