Discuss the relationships between Will's various experiences of time. What is the common thread between all these experiences? How does this common thread relate to his other thematically significant discoveries about the nature of love, the nature of friendship, and overcoming fear?

What are your experiences with friendship? What are some of the most important friendships in your life? How have they changed you? How have they challenged you? How have you navigated changes in those relationships?

In "Smiles to Go," suffering and conflict is transformed into healing and respect as the result of the characters coming to a deeper, more compassionate understanding of and relationship with love. Discuss an incident and/or situation in which an expression of love and affection made a difficult situation easier or transformed a relationship into a positive one.

Discuss how characters other than Will experience fear and...