After reading The Thin Wall, consider these questions:
- Is the author’s assertion that U.S. prisoners-of-war were secretly transferred to the Soviet Union fact or fiction?
- Would the U.S. government ever knowingly abandon its servicemen? If so, did this happen in Vietnam?
- What is your personal and political freedom worth? Can you provide an example of the “price of freedom” paid by some of the characters?
- Do you believe the author’s bleak portrayal of life inside an Eastern Bloc nation is accurate? (In this case Czechoslovakia)
- How would you have responded to Col. Dal’s tyranny had you lived in the village of Mersk?
- Dr. Milan Husak struggled with his patriotism. Was his rationale for “not wanting to get involved” fair?
- Were the fates of Col. Dal and Dr. Husak predetermined by Ayna Sahhat’s curse?
- At the end of the story, Ayna sees a peacock in the village square. What is the significance of this?
- The blind veteran character only appears at the beginning and the end of the story, why do you think this is so?
- What are some of the political realities that existed in 1968 that are present today between Russia and The United States?
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