Discuss happiness. What is happiness? Why couldn't Ka accept happiness when he found it? What could he have done differently?

Discuss religious beliefs. What role do they play in governments? What role do they play culturally? What is an atheist?

Discuss snowflakes. Does everyone have their own snowflake? How does the symmetry of the snowflake relate to a person?

Discuss how Ka could fall in love so easily after being without it most of his life. Was he really in love? Was Ipek in love with him? If not, then why was she going to Germany with him?

Discuss the issue of the removal of head scarves. What did that have to do with the story? Were the suicides part of the story or a subtopic that really didn't have anything to do with the story?

Discuss how the story would differ if written...