• What do you believe? (or, perhaps like Morpheus in the Matrix, we might ask, "What is it that you choose to believe?" Will you take the red pill or the blue pill?)
• I believe that as a population humans are dumb. We have devolved so much from our natural state that most of us can't stand a clear open space. In general I believe a lot of things to be true but I also am open to new ideas. I don't believe in a higher power but I am curious as to how it all started.
  

• What or who has shaped your system of belief?
• Working in this world and observing people for both art and writing classes. I've noticed little things like how people hold their hands to big things like the way people look when they lie. 
  

• Think of a time when your belief system was challenged. How did you respond?
• I did have a point where someone tried to convince me that God was real and that he was in my heart, they even tried to say a prayer for me and make me feel him but nothing happened I told her I was sorry and she said it was alright and that some day I would know the love of God. Maybe one day.
  

• Consider "belief" in Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. What beliefs are firmly upheld? What beliefs are challenged or change? What self-revelations or "awakenings" occur in Winterson's modern-day Bildungsroman? Use quotes from the text as support.
• When Jeanette was born then adopted in the book it was like the birth of Christ, and she much so followed his story thought the book. She is however gay and that conflicts with everything that she believes in and she struggles with this idea.
  

• How are Jeanette's changing beliefs demonstrated symbolically or through foreshadowing within the pages of the novel?
• The orange is an important part of the story and it seems to represent the stereotypical human. Heterosexual, normal. Her mother gives them to her in her times of need but when Melanie tries to give her one she refuses it.

• What struggles still exist for Jeanette, even after she has "accepted" herself?
• Her mother and friends wont talk to her and become repulsed by her when she is at the funeral. She keeps herself alone most of the time.