55 pages • 1 hour read
LeAnne HoweMiko Kings
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Essay Topics
Content Warning: This section contains references to racism against Indigenous people.
What is the significance behind Ezol’s equation 1+1=4?
When Ezol first appears to Lena, she says that Lena shouldn’t always trust documents to tell the truth. In what ways do documents skew the truth in Miko Kings?
How does Lena’s relationship to her Choctaw heritage, and to Oklahoma, evolve over the course of the book?
What are some of the similarities between the Choctaw healing ceremony and the game of baseball? What is the significance of these similarities?
In Miko Kings, two different characters are written from a first-person point of view, both of whom are trying to record an accurate history of the story of the Miko Kings. Compare and contrast these two characters, Lena and Algernon, and their relationship to the theme of recording an accurate history.
Miko Kings is set against the backdrop of the Allotment Era. In what ways does this historical context affect the founding of the Miko Kings baseball team?
How is the legend of “Black Juice” different from the real Justina Maurepas?
What are some examples of the racism that the characters in Miko Kings face? How do these experiences of racism change throughout the various timelines?
How are Choctaw songs implemented throughout different moments in the book?
Miko Kings speaks to the great amount of grief experienced by the Indigenous Americans throughout history. What are some of the ways that these characters move through their grief toward healing?
