Alana

Discussion Guide

Participants:

• Narrator
• Narrator's parents
• Fireman

Event:

   The narrator secretly dresses as a school girl while his parents are not home. One day he accidently locks the balcony door behind him. He ends up 'coming out' to the fire department, his neighbours and his parents at an inopportune time.

Discussion:

• How do you think you would feel on discovering the locked door?
• What do you think about the parent's reaction ipon learning that their daughter has been sucessfully rescued?
• Do you think the solution by Alan's parents to restrict Alana are reasonable?
• If yes, why?
• If no, what would you propose instead?
• Was anyone harmed?
• If yes, who?
• If no, why not?

Additional story:

    Lucy


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