- How is Ariel’s planet like our own?
- What are the reasons hardly anyone believes Ariel — her parents, aunt, best friend, neighbors?
- With whom do you identify in the story — Ariel, her friend, neighbor, or family members?
- Why do you think the author used a quotation from a nursery story as a title for her story?
- What does it mean to ‘stay wake’?
- What are you asleep to?