There are several parts of this book where the text is open to interpretation. Working as a class, discuss the possible meanings of the following passages.
“But we do stop. Because the people who are taking us don’t always take us where we are going.”
“The truck that is going to take us arrives. The boy and his grandmother look at us the way that people that meet us on the road look at us.”
“Sometimes, when I’m not sleeping, I count the stars. There are thousands, like people. And I count the moon. It is alone. Sometimes I see soldiers, but I don’t count them anymore. There are about a hundred.”