Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- Who benefits more from the messages: Ed, or the people he helps? How does delivering the messages help him?
- What is the most challenging aspect of Ed's journey? Why are his friends' names last in the group of people he helps?
- Why does Ed go along with delivering the messages in the first place? What is attractive about it to him?
- What's the deal with the playing cards? How does Ed understand each of the suits of aces? Why does he have a different reaction to each?
- Ed ends the novel by saying he's not the messenger, he is the message. What is the difference? Why is that important to him?
- How do the titles of the chapters help us understand what is going on? In what ways do they foreshadow the action to come?
- Why does Ed talk to us, the audience, as if we are a part of it? How does he include us in what's happening?
- Who controls the messages? What is the point of the messages?