QUESTIONS
- What personal qualities does Julia possess that help her adjust so quickly to life in a new country?
- What are some examples of ways she learns from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences?
- What observations about "les humans relations" does Julia learn from the French?
- What does she learn from her life in the kitchen, first at the Cordon Bleu, and later writing the cookbook with the "trois gourmands"?
- What is Julia's relationship with her family?
- What cultural experiences impress her most? How do they change her?
- What does Julia learn about entrepreneurship and marketing?
- What does the way she meets the challenge of the Great French Bread Experiment show about her?
- What kind of storyteller is Julia?
- Would you call her a candid memoirist? Are there parts of her life about which you wish she had given more information?
Questions compiled by Suzanne Fisher
Voorheesville Public Library
fishers@uhls.lib.ny.us
