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After reading: HL Essay ideas

This page is designed to give some initial ideas for those considering using In Cold Blood for their HL essay. The novel's richness and its blending of fiction and nonfiction means there are many different and interesting ways it could be approached for this assessment task. Given that the Higher Level essay has a 1200-1500 word limit, the topic chosen needs to be well defined and well focused. After some reminders...

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