What is your overall opinion of the story? Is it a positive or negative representation of Down syndrome? Would you recommend it to others?
What is your overall opinion of the story? Is it a positive or negative representation of Down syndrome? Would you recommend it to others?
**How do you think Alicia’s story will end?**
**What would you have done if Chloe had been your daughter and become pregnant? How do you think others would have reacted to your choice?**
**How could Alicia have prevented Chloe and Thomas’s marriage from failing? Margaret?**
““Will Thomas be giving up his parental rights?” She’s quiet for a moment. “I think it’s best, Alicia, don’t you?”” p. 259 This seems like a complicated legal issue. Assuming Margaret has guardianship over Thomas, does that give her the…
**“We’re all sorry. We wanted our children to be happy so we let them get married. It was a mistake. We made a mistake.” P. 259 Do you think having Chloe and Thomas move into Alicia’s house after they were…
“I take along my guardianship papers for good measure.” P. 190 The one thing that I notice got almost no attention in this story is the part that guardianship would play if this story were true. Many people believe that…
“I know there are those in the world who would argue that Thomas and Chloe have the same right to reproduce as anyone, but I would wager those people have never come home to a house set on fire by…
**Do you think Alicia should have allowed Chloe to get married? Should Margaret have allowed Thomas to get married? Would there have been a better option?**
Clothing plays an important part in our lives and in those of the characters we’re reading about. Faulkner describes how Alicia feels about Chloe’s clothes: “But I still think it’s important that I dress her the way I would dress…