Q1) What action does the teacher take that helps to dignify the young girl who died?
Q2) What does the teacher help her students to do in order to help them to make sense of their grief?
Q3) In Gabrielle Roy's "The Dead Child" an important idea is the way in which grief leads to experience. Reflecting on grief that you have experienced yourself, or grief that you have observed, consider ways that grief shaped you or those around you. In what ways was your outlook on life shaped by that grief? What has the long term-impact of that experience been?