I cannot find a list of discussion questions for "There's a Slight Chance I Might Be Going To Hell.
Anyone have any leads... I've checked all the usual suspects... hmmm..
I looked & looked, but didn't find any discussion questions for the book. But I did find a generic list of questions at Book Movement. Perhaps you can adapt some of these to the book. (I haven't read anything by Notaro, so I can't help here.)
Sample questions for your discussion
1. How does the title relate to the book?
2. How believable are the characters? Which character do you identify with? Is it possible to identify with any of these characters?
3. Is the protagonist sympathetic or unsympathetic? Why?
4. What themes—motherhood, self-discovery, wilderness, etc.—recur throughout the book? How does the author use these themes? Do they work?
5. Why do certain characters act the way they act? What motivates a character to do something that she would not normally do? Does she have an axe to grind, a political ideology, religious belief, psychological disorder? Is there anything that you would call “out of character”? Does the character grow over the course of the story?
6. What types of symbolism are in this novel? What do these objects really represent? How do characters react to and with these symbolic objects?
7. Think about the broader social issues that this book is trying to address. For example, what does the author think about anarchy versus capitalism as a means of life? How is a particular culture or subculture portrayed? Favorably? Unfavorably?
8. Where could the story go from here? What is the future of these characters? What would our lives be like if we lived in this story? Could the civilization portrayed really exist? What if?
9. What does that character mean when he says,”…”? How does the author use certain words and phrases differently than we would normally use them? Does the author make up new words? Why would he do that?
10. How does the arrangement of the book help or detract from the ideas in the novel? Does the arrangement contribute to themes or symbols? How is the book structured? Flashbacks? From one or multiple points of view? Why do you think the author chose to write the book this way?
11. Does the book fit into or fight against a literary genre? How does the author use [science fiction, humor, tragedy, romance] to effect the novel? Does this book typify a regional (southern, western) novel? How?
12. How does this book relate to other books you have read? Would this book make a good movie? Is there a film adaptation of this book? How does the film compare to the book? What is brought out or played down in the film version?
13. Is the setting of the book important to the theme? Why? How realistic is the setting?
14. What did the author attempt to do in this book? Was it successful?
15. What is the author’s worldview?
16. Were the plot and subplots believable? Were they interesting? What loose ends, if any, did the author leave?
17. What is the great strength—or the most noticeable weakness—of the book?