We Were Not Like Other People | Topics for Discussion & Projects

We Were Not Like Other People Topics for Discussion

1. How should a person respond to a request that requires a suspension of one's moral standards?

2. Can matters of right and wrong be determined apart from the context in which the decisions are required?

3. What kinds of standards or moral values should guide an individual when faced with making a choice to help someone else or save himself?

4. Why did the author of We Were Not Like Other People choose not to give the hero a name?

5. What did the narrator hope to achieve by revealing the family name to the authorities when his parents would not?

6. Would the results have been different if the boy had not interfered with the investigation of his parents' true identity?

7. Would techniques used by the mother of the narrator to help him learn to...
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