THE BOY WHO TRIED TO CATCH THE WIND — DISCUSSION GUIDE

For ages 8+ and adults. Use the questions that suit your readers; there is no single correct interpretation.

BEFORE READING
1. Can a list of true facts tell the whole truth about a person?
2. What is something you know how to do but find difficult to explain?
3. Why do people ask machines questions?

AFTER READING
1. Why does the boy feel that something is missing from his card?
2. What can the machine do well? What can it not do for him?
3. What does the stonecutter understand through practice?
4. Why does the girl at the pond wait instead of demanding an answer?
5. What changes when the boy looks into many mirrors?
6. Why does climbing the mountain matter if the answer is not waiting at the top?
7. What might the wind mean to the boy? What else could it mean?
8. Which part of the story stayed with you, and why?

MAKE OR TRY
- Draw a “card” that contains true facts about you. On the back, draw something important that the facts leave out.
- Teach someone a small skill without using instructions. What had to be shown or felt?
- Sit quietly outdoors for two minutes. Write down what you noticed only after waiting.
- Retell one chapter from the machine’s point of view.

FOR OLDER READERS
- Where does the story distinguish information from knowledge, and knowledge from experience?
- When does a description help us see another person? When can it hide them?
- What should people expect from AI, and what should they not ask it to replace?
- The grown-up notes name Korzybski, Buber, Polanyi, Zhuangzi, Weil, and Eliot. Which idea most changes your reading of the story?

READ FREE
English: https://scaleofus.com/immerse/wind/
Spanish: https://scaleofus.com/immerse/es/
Notes for grown-ups: https://scaleofus.com/read/wind/#grown-ups

Written and illustrated by Hector Ouilhet Olmos. Published by Scale of Us.
