1. Describe some intriguing questions, issues, or dilemmas your book raises. Attempt to explain and/or answer as many as you can citing specific evidence or examples when appropriate.
Vanishing Acts raises many questions. Most of the questions relate to atonement, and the question; can it be achieved? In the book, the main character Delia Hopkins faces the dilemma. She must make a choice: does she forgive the father with the best intentions, or the mother she always wanted, but never knew? Delia Hopkins always felt that something was missing. She knew she was missing a mother, and a childhood that for some reason has vanished from her mind. Delia never knew her mother nor did she remember her childhood, because her father kidnapped her away. Now years later the police show up on her doorstep with a warrant for her fathers arrest. The trail is taken back to Arizona, bringing with it memories of a life she had forgotten. Delia is faced with the toughest decisions of her life. Does she forgive her father, or testify against him.? Does she forgive her mother, who was too drunk to take care of her? Does she forgive her friend for leading the cops to her door? Can she admit that she would do the same thing if she alcoholic husband was too drunk to take care of their own daughter? Delia is forced to try to live the best of both worlds, forgiving as many people as she can. But she knows that her father was in the best of intentions, and her friend could not have possible foreseen the troubles his researched caused. it is up to her to fill in the pieces of her memory, and move past this difficult time.
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