1. Why would the author chose to place the novel in the desert instead of elsewhere?
2. Is there any significance to John Grady looking for his mom in a hotel?
3. What is the deal with the treacherous lightening storm that comes into play?
4. How come the boys have not encountered any harmful animals? Do you expect them to?
5. Why do the boys wait until an hour before daylight to steal back Blevins’s horse instead of midnight?
6. What’s the deal with the Mexicans they pass on their journey, but barely associate with?
7. What’s the deal with the random workers who offer wax in exchange for Blevins?
8. Is there significance to the home life Blevins has run from?
9. Do you believe Blevins’s story about the history of dying from strike of lightening?
10. Why does Blevins lose all of his clothes except his undershorts?
11. Why does the author contradict what Rawlins says about getting Blevins horse back as the last time to ditch him, when in fact, they separate for a long while later?
12. Why does the author bring up John Grady’s dad, only to have John run away?
13. Why do the boys separate from each other?
14. Why does Blevins always stop, and get found later in the middle of the road?
15. Where are the three boys headed for?
16. Will religion play a bigger part in this novel or not?
17. Why does Rawlins hate Blevins so much?
18. Did the riders catch up with Blevins? If yes, what do you think they did to him?
19. What is the significance of Blevins crawling through the window and getting his horse back?
20. Will Blevins get his pistol back?
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