What is actually going on in the story’s “real world”—that is, objectively? • What does each character believe is going on? • Where are there contradictions? (Joe, believing that his brother Mark is their dad’s favorite, is forever trying to win his dad’s approval; Mark knows that their dad is really an evil alien, so he has been protecting Joe from him ever since he was born.) • Given what each character believes is true (as opposed to what might actually be true), how would they act in the scene? • Does what each character does in the scene make sense, given what he or
