“You get the feeling people want you to be what they’re not, or what they should have been.” (134)
Tell me about a time when you have experienced this and tell me how it made you feel and why it made you feel that way.

Discussion questions:
“This was the difference between Jesse and me—the type of thing we worried about, or didn’t. I worry about a game coming up, or whether I got an assignment all correct, or what Lorna might think. As far as I could tell, Jesse didn’t have a thing in the world to worry about.” (131)
Why might someone like Jesse not worry about things, especially living in Calamus?