Note: Jumping Off to Freedom involves some intense moral issues and would be a good work to use as the foundation for a discussion of ethics.

1. Why are the characters in Jumping Off to Freedom so very secretive? Are they too paranoid?

2. Should the people in the novel be sent to prison if they kill and butcher a cow that does not belong to them?

3. Cuban police track down David because his bicycle is registered to him. Do you own a bicycle that has a license? Should you be worried that the police can use that license to keep track of you?

4. "You simply do what's right," says Toro to explain why he swam after Luis to rescue him. Was that smart? Should he have let Luis go and not have risked dying himself?

5. Why do the males speak to the females harshly? Do...