Have you ever felt depressed and rejected? How did you overcome such feelings? Share your experience with your classmates.

What is Behrman’s masterpiece? What makes Sue say so?

Behrman has a dream. What is it? Does it come true?

Do you think the feeling of depression Johnsy has, is common among teenagers?

What is Johnsy’s illness? What can cure her, the medicine or the willingness to live?

“...whenever we are told to hate our brothers...” When do you think this happens? Why? Who ‘tells’ us? Should we do as we are told at such times? What does the poet say? I am a citizen, not of Athens as Greece, but of the World. —Socrates