Perhaps not being able to choose what they want to eat for their meals may be frustrating for the townspeople. But not everything that results from the town’s weather is good. Maybe people can use this extra time and money to have more fun with friends and buy more things that they want. This also means that people don’t have to pay for food either. People can walk outside with their plates and silverware and just wait to get food, rather than spend a large portion of their time preparing meals. Additionally, the townspeople don’t need farmers to grow food, which makes life much easier. In fact, they can eat to their heart’s content. Having food always fall from the sky could have many benefits. The pros seem to be more apparent from the book than the cons, so more time should be allotted to challenging the children to find some possible cons of the situation. Therefore, most of this part of the discussion involves coming up with the pros and cons of having food fall from the sky and asking the children what parts about having food fall from the sky they would like and dislike. But it appears that nothing comes without consequence: having food fall from the sky three times a day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner limits the people in the town of Chewandswallow in various ways. In our current world, this would be an incredible solution to one of humanity’s biggest problems: world hunger. The abundance of food appears at first to be a blessing: because people don’t need to grow their own food, nobody starves (neither people nor animals), and there are almost always leftovers. However, when inspected more closely, it is philosophically rich and entertains multiple questions about freedom, safety, migration, and adaptation. At first glance, the story may seem to only be about a mysterious and magical town with odd weather patterns where food falls from the sky. In the story, the townspeople of Chewandswallow must endure the burden of their homeland’s unusual weather and the subsequent struggle of traveling across the sea to a new land. Read aloud video Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion When the weather turns bad, citizens face a difficult decision: Should they stay in their town, where it is unsafe to step outside, or abandon their homeland and set off for another town? The citizens ultimately find another home and become accustomed to buying food from supermarkets and watching rain and snow fall from the sky. In the town of Chewandswallow, food falls from the sky three times a day. Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary This story explores the conflict between safety and security and raises questions about the nature and ethics of migration.
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