![]() ![]() Examine the relationships between parents and their children in the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() What do you think the reader gains by having access to these different points of view? What do each of these perspectives bring to the story? Whose story did you enjoy most? Whose story surprised you the most?ĥ. The novel is told through the perspectives of three characters: that of Priya, of Grace, and of Mahindan both in the present and in the past. Author Sharon Bala has said that she wrote the novel as a “meditation on empathy.” Discuss how the novel explores both the need for empathy as well as how it is tested.Ĥ. Consider the book’s epigraph by Martin Luther King Jr.: “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” How does this epigraph relate to the plot or set the stage for the themes explored in the book?ģ. Who did you think the boat people of the title were going to be? What other examples of “boat people” are you aware of?Ģ. Why do you think the author chose The Boat People as her title? Throughout history, the term “boat people” has been used to refer to different waves of migrants. ![]()
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