1. Compare the pressures felt by Morton in "Omar's One True Love" and Ewan in "Three Strands of her Hair." How do the authors show the escalating anxiety teens feel over getting a date for the prom?
2. In "Borrowed lives," by Richard Parks, how do the aliens in the story represent ordinary teenagers? What truths about teenage emotions does Parks wish to illuminate?
3. Fred Saberhagen, in his story "The Senior Prom," puts sex in the foreground by depicting a world in which sexual promiscuity is the norm and sexual abstinence the taboo. Discuss how hints of the allure of sexual abstinence surface in the story.
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