EF6 "Four Directions" group questions

“Four Directions” Group Discussion Topics

1.    Why does the mother give the daughter advice about chess?  Does the mother help the daughter?

2.    Why does the daughter yell at her mother?  Is she right to be angry at her mother?

3.    What traps does the daughter set for the mother?

4.    That traps does the mother set for the daughter?

5.    What do you think the mother means when she says, “No!... It is not so easy anymore?”  What has changed between the mother and daughter?

6.    The daughter says, “[S]ure enough, I won her back.”  What did she win from the mother?  What did she lose?

7.    Who wins in the game between the mother and the daughter?  Why?

8.    What happens to the girl's “supreme confidence” at the end of the story?  Why?

9.    Is this a story about chess or about something bigger?

10.                        What is important about the fact that “nobody protested” when the daughter stopped playing chess?