Read the short story Frozen river and answer the questions
Study Questions
- Why was the Mohawk land a good place for smuggling people across the border?
- How are Ray and Lila similar and how are they different?
- What are some of the things that bring them together by the end of the film?
- Why is TJ (the older son) so angry at his mother? Why at her, and not at his father?
- What might the film be saying about the effects of social class on family relationships?
- How might the story have been different if the two main characters were men rather than women?
- Ray, Lila, and others involved in transporting people across the border
seem to view them as commodities more than as people. Does the film do
this too?
Discussion Question (at least 150 words)
Was Ray, and was Lila, wrong to get involved in smuggling people across
the border?
Sample Solution