Signs: Journal Questions

Signs: Miracles that are put on our journey to give us direction

1. At the start of the film, Graham, the father, awakens suddenly from a dream; when he finds his daughter later, she asks him: “Are you in my dream too?” Describe a time when you had a dream or nightmare that seemed so real, you thought it actually happened.

2. This film’s title can be taken to mean several things, as presented in this film. Discuss the ideas presented here regarding signs as thoroughly as you can.

3. Graham says there are two groups of people in the world. One group has fear because they believe that whatever happens in your life, you’re ultimately on your own. The other group see miracles everywhere because they believe Someone (God) is always there to help, which gives them hope. Decide which group you think you are in. Discuss your answer fully.

4. Identify how each of the following are “signs” or events of consequences in this film:

a. the field crop shapes around the world

b. Bo’s refusal to drink the water and leaving glasses of it around

c. Morgan being an asthmatic

d. Merrill comes home to help out his brother after Graham’s wife’s death

e. Merrill has his record-breaking bat hanging on the wall at home

f. Graham’s wife says: “Tell Graham...tell him to see”

g. “Tell Merrill to swing away”

5. Describe a situation from your life when you were very, very frightened. Explain the circumstances fully. What was the final outcome?

6. Morgan says to Merrill, “I wish you were my dad.” Have you ever wished you had different parents? How would your life change if you could choose new parents? What would they be like? If you’d choose to keep things the same, why?

7. “I dreamed this”, Bo says about Morgan, as he struggles for life in the basement. Have you ever had a premonition of something, a feeling about some event is coming, good or bad? Explain. What was the outcome?

8. Graham says “Some people see signs, see miracles.” Explain the series of miracles that occur in the last ten minutes of the film, starting with Colleen’s statement, made in flashback, referring to her coming death: “It was meant to be.”