Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

The Plague by Albert Camus

• Camus’s famous novel about existential problems in the face of plagues.
• Ties-in to themes of The Unavoidability of Death and Death as Invasion.
• The Plague on Super Summary

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

• A gothic novel about the simultaneous capacity for good and evil and the darkness in human nature.
• Ties-in to themes of The Unavoidability of Death and Fear Transformed to Revelry.
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Super Summary

“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

• Poe’s gothic short story about a cursed house and the dark secrets of the house’s family.
• Ties-in to themes of Death as Invasion.  
• “The Fall of the House of Usher” on Super Summary

Other Student Resources

A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

• a historical fiction novel about the bubonic plague
• ties-in to themes of Death as Invasion and The Unavoidability of Death
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