•  Research the psychological effects that losing a child can have on a parent. Prepare a PowerPoint demonstration of your findings, including what most often happens to parents who face this kind of loss. Prepare to lead a discussion on what other ways Charles and Dulcie could have coped with their loss.

•  Silver uses flashbacks to provide crucial information about the loss of the couple’s child. How would you film a version of the story that would include the information gained in the flashbacks? Write a screenplay of a scene from the text that includes at least one flashback.

•  Read one or two stories in the collection that contains this story and compare and contrast them with “What I Saw from Where I Stood.” Write an introduction for the collection...