<meta content="urn:uuid:41f86e3c-9b8a-4021-9904-fc3aea34b893" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body id="raw-107"> <div class="_idGenObjectStyleOverride-1"> <p class="content-chapter" id="_idParaDest-100">Discussion Questions</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">1.</span> Do you think the future world of social media depicted in The Distractions was ultimately a realistic one? Why or why not?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">2.</span> Could you relate to Mischa’s obsession with Nic? How has social media affected the ways you see and relate to others?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">3.</span> What obsessions, preoccupations, and distractions have you faced down in your own life? Did the novel echo any of these?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">4.</span> Who was the narrator, in the end? Were they reliable?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">5.</span> What solution(s) does Mischa ultimately find for her distractions? What are some of the positives and negatives of trying either to “OffReel” entirely, or to potentially live in an entirely Reel-generated world?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">6.</span> What contemporary issues with technology, AI, and social media did The Distractions amplify or bring to life in a new way for you?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">7.</span> How were Ari and Mischa, and their problems, alike? How were they different?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">8.</span> Would you rather be an OffReeler or get to spend six months in Blue Lake? Why?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">9.</span> What was Project Alovue and do you think it—or any algorithm or AI–actually did or could have the ability to love?</p> <p class="numbered"><span class="_idgenbnmarker">10.</span> What did you find to be the most eerie, frightening, or prescient element of the novel?</p> </div> </body> </html>