Curious Perspectives – Agent C.P. Pigeon
A note from C.P.

This is not another study guide.

We don't do plot summaries particularly well here. The internet has plenty of those.

We start where
the summary ends.

Some questions are serious. Some are strange. Some are worth carrying around for a while.

Have an opinion. Be unsure. Change your mind.

πŸ¦β€œSo, what do you make of it?”
Question on File Β· 001

If something looks real, does it matter if it isn’t?

No answer required. Yet.

Choose where to look.

EXPLORE Β· THINK Β· QUESTION Β· DISCOVER
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Literature

Case Files

Characters without model characterisations. Evidence, contradictions, perspectives and questions worth arguing about.

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Language

Language under Investigation

Not vocabulary sheets. Look at how language creates tone, power, ambiguity, persuasion β€” and sometimes trouble.

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Writing

Your Voice

How do you make an argument sharper, more precise and more convincingly yours β€” without turning it into a template?

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Skills

Look. Listen. Question.

Read beyond the obvious. Notice what is missing. Decide what deserves your trust and what needs another look.

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Exams

Think Clearly.

Strategies for turning what you know into clear, convincing answers β€” even when time is limited.

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Culture

Your World

Media, society, identity, power and the questions that don’t stop being interesting when the lesson ends.

Current File

Yesteryear

A carefully staged life. A very different reality. Start with your reaction, follow the evidence, question the easy answers β€” then predict where the story might go.

OPEN THE FILE β†’
C.P.’s Desk

Bring your own mind.

Agree. Partly agree. Disagree. Be unsure. Change your mind. The point is not to guess what C.P. wants to hear.

🐦 β€œI have an opinion. This should surprise absolutely nobody.”
VISIT C.P.’S DESK β†’
BIG PICTURE Β· CROSSOVER FILE

Individual in Society

Three characters. Three very different obstacles. One question that keeps returning: How much freedom do we really have β€” and what do we do with it?

MAKE THE CONNECTION β†’
NATALIE Γ— HENRY Γ— MRS MALLARD
Yesteryear Β· The Lapse Β· The Story of an Hour
STUDENT ACCESS

Enter your Briefing Room.

Choose your course. Your released files are waiting inside.

ENTER BRIEFING ROOM β†’
Explore the Archive

Some things don’t fit into a subject.

QUESTION DESK
What have we forgotten to ask? β†’
CURRENT DESK
What do we actually know? β†’
MORE DETOURS β†’
C.P.’s Desk Β· Rabbit Holes β†’
BEHIND THE FILES Β· AI helped me build this website. The ideas, questions and thinking behind it are mine.   I brought the ideas. AI brought possibilities. We argued quite a lot. TEACHER LOGIN