1. What does the speaker celebrate? In what way is the speaker connected to the reader?

2. What question does the child ask? What is the speaker's first response?

3. What does the speaker say the grass is?

4. What does the speaker hear? What hints does the speaker not understand?

5. What does the smallest sprout show?

6. What attitude does the speaker have toward death? Why might the speaker feel this way?

7. What does the speaker say he is not? What does the speaker claim to be?

8. Why would the speaker like to live with the animals? In what ways are they different from humans?

9. Where should you look to see the speaker? What will the speaker do for the people he is addressing?

10. What has the speaker's voyage been like? Has it been successful?

11. What has happened to the captain of the ship?

12. According to the speaker, why are the people on shore celebrating?