Teacher Guide

The Sense of an Ending Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Julian Barnes' collection of stories The Lemon Table (2006) includes several overlapping themes with The Sense of an Ending, including aging and mortality, and explores the human experience with a similar philosophical bent and emotional depth.

Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht is a nonfiction book about the history of suicide that highlights thoughtful, provocative philosophies against it. Because of the prominence of the theme of suicide in The Sense of an Ending, this book can serve to contextualize and expand upon how the book deals with the philosophy of suicide. On a related note, students may find reading excerpts of Camus' work,...

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