1. Adam is pedaling on the bike at the beginning and the end of the novel. What do you think this endless cycling refers to? Does the book have a sense of motion? Is there a destination? 2. Discuss the meaning of the title. Is it significant that it comes from a nursery song sung by Adam at the end of the book? 3. Adam is struggling to understand his identity. What composes his identity? What composes your identity? What defines you? 4. Do you think this novel is a tragedy? What types of injustice are done to Adam? How does the government view him? Does it value him? In what way(s)? 5. Adam is being manipulated by the doctors/ government. How is Cormier manipulating you as the reader and why?