1. Michael Cunningham

2.  Share your MVPs for this story. Explain why you chose this passage as your MVP.

3.  Identify quotes where Cunningham writes about doors, windows, planes, flying, and winged creatures.  Discuss the role these objects/symbols play in the story.

4.  Share the lyrics from the songs you listened to for homework.  Discuss the roles music and historical time period play in the story.

5. Describe the characters and their relationships. Consider the relationship between:  Carlton and Bobby  The father and Carlton; the father and Bobby  The mother and Carlton; the mother and Bobby  The mother and father  Carlton and his girlfriend

6.  What does Carlton want?  What does Bobby, at age 9, want?  What does Bobby, the adult, want? Why does he write the story?

7.  What themes or archetypes does Cunningham’s explore in this story?

8.  What makes this a postmodern text?  How does the postmodern condition or perspective connect to the themes of the story?