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- What must it be like to meet famous people like Jane Fonda, Angelina Jolie, Manute Bol? What is the downside to the celebrity?
- Why does he think he was given the Christian name Valentino?
- Waiting is a central theme in this book. Compare the waiting in the emergency room with the waiting in Kenya and the waiting to get into college.
- When Valentino is tied up and left alone finally in the apartment, he tries in vain to make enough noise for the Christians downstairs to hear him. How is this like the many times the boys think the US will save them?
- What is it like to receive charity? How does it make a person feel?
- Think of the boys in the drama group and how the teacher calls them all Domenic. The boys laugh about this, but how is it similar to the January 1 birthdays?
- After Valentino is in the US for a while, he said, “Enthusiasm for us has dampened.” How does he continue to go on?
- Why does he tell his story over a 24 hour period?
