ADMIT PURPOSE INTERVIEW GUIDE

THEMES

- Satire that never explains the joke
- Charisma, recognition, and why people follow
- Prosperity language as moral and administrative machinery
- Public goods, private benefit, and selective ideas of dependence
- Family systems built around founders
- Political slogans as voluntary loyalty tests
- The difference between confession and reform
- What happens when an institution outgrows its founder

SUGGESTED QUESTIONS

1. Why tell the novel entirely through Beau's voice?
2. What must readers genuinely like about Beau before the satire can work?
3. How did you keep Promise World believable rather than cartoonish?
4. Why is A Novel such an important phrase inside the book and on the website?
5. How does Darlene's complicity change the family story?
6. Why does Micah resist Beau through immediate human need rather than argument?
7. What does Eden inherit from Beau, and what does she improve?
8. How do the legal records change when separate explanations become a pattern?
9. Why is Mrs. Price's classroom central to the national movement section?
10. Does Beau change at the final gathering?
11. Why does the epilogue give Beau another marketable idea?
12. What does the final line, It was only the door, leave unresolved?