Book Club Questions for the Art of Racing in the Rain

Word Questions: The Fine art of Racing in the Rain

by Lee

Below is a conglomeration of give-and-take questions gleaned from various Web sources relating to our electric current book, The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein.

MORE Mutual DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Many online sources — Reading Group Guides, Harper Collins, the books publisher, and others — accept shamelessly plagiarized one another'southward reading guide questions. Hither they are, in all their commonality:

1. Some early readers of the novel have observed that viewing the globe through a dog'south eyes makes for a greater appreciation of being human. Why practice you remember this is?
2. Enzo'southward observations throughout the novel provide insight into his world view. For example:
   • "The visible becomes inevitable."
   • "Understanding the truth is elementary. Assuasive oneself to experience information technology, is often terrifically difficult."
   • "No race has ever been won in the showtime corner; many races have been lost in that location."
   • How does his philosophy apply to real life?
3. In the book'southward darkest moments, i of Zoe's stuffed animals — the zebra — comes to life and threatens him. What does the zebra symbolize?
4. Tin can you imagine the novel being told from Denny'southward point of view? How would information technology make the story different?
5. In the start chapter, Enzo says: "It's what's within that'south important. The soul. And my soul is very homo." How does Enzo's situation — a human soul trapped in a canis familiaris's body — influence his opinions nearly what he sees around him? How do you feel about the ideas of reincarnation and karma as Enzo defines them?
6. Do you find yourself looking at your ain dog differently subsequently reading this novel?
7. In the book, nosotros become glimpses into the mindset and mentality of a race automobile commuter. What parallels can you think of betwixt the art of racing and the art of living?
8. The character of Ayrton Senna, as he is presented in the book, is heroic, almost a mythic effigy. Why exercise you lot call back this grapheme resonates and so strongly for Denny?

OTHER DISCUSSION GUIDE QUESTIONS

A deeper plunge of the Internet provides more than unique discussion guide questions. The web log Read to Enrich offers these for discussion:

1. What was your favorite scene in the novel?
2. Did you lot like the technique of making Enzo exist the narrator?  Would the story accept worked if the narrator was one of the humans?
3. Exercise you think dogs or other animals can really understand humans and take the want to communicate with them?
4. Hash out Enzo's more human characteristics:
   • His feelings afterwards Eve died (and his animal reaction of chasing and eating the squirrel ) [page 165]
   • Advising people to learn to listen (page 102)
5. Can dogs and other animals sense things that humans cannot?  Enzo smelled Eve's cancer well before anyone made a diagnosis.
6. What did you call back of Enzo's description of communication, "…in that location are so many moving parts.  There's presentation and there's estimation and they're so dependent on each other it makes things very difficult." (folio five) Was this a skillful analysis?
7. What did y'all think about Enzo's analysis of his death?  He said nearly Denny, "He needs me to free him to be brilliant."  (page five)
8. The author wrote, "A true hero is flawed.  The truthful examination of a champion is not whether he tin can triumph, simply whether he can overcome obstacles – preferably of his ain making – in order to triumph." (page 135)  Do yous agree?  What practise yous retrieve about the obstacles "existence of his own making?" Can yous name anyone who y'all think is a hero?  Does he or she fit this description?
9. About a champion, he wrote "It makes 1 realize that the physicality of our globe is a boundary to the states only if our volition is weak; a truthful champion can attain things that a normal person would call up impossible." (page 65)  Do you agree?
10. One of Denny'due south favorite statements was "…that which we manifest is earlier us." (page 43)  What did he mean?  Do you lot agree?
11. The author stated that women and dogs feel hurting the same ("tap directly into the pain" page 62) whereas men "are all filters and deflectors and timed release."  (page 63)  Is this an accurate description?  Do you call back there is a difference in how men, women and dogs experience pain?
12. Regarding the evil zebra, at the terminate Enzo realizes that the zebra is, "non something outside of u.s..  The zebra is something inside of usa.  Our fears.  Our own cocky-destructive nature.  The zebra is the worst role of us when nosotros are contiguous with our worst times.  The demon is usa!" (folio 264)  Do yous agree?  Can y'all recollect of any examples from other books you accept read where the characters were their ain worst enemies?
13. There were many comments in the book almost life in general.  What comparisons were made between driving a race car and life?  Tin y'all add others?

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