Roz and Her Memories

I'm in the process of reading:

to my Kindergarten students. They LOVE it! I don't know if it's because this is the 2nd installment in the series and they have developed a relationship with the characters or if, like me, they just want to find out what happens in the end--but every day when we are getting ready for dismissal they chant "We want Roz!". 

Just to give you some background-Roz is a robot created to work. She gets stranded on an island and learns how to be a contributing member of that society. She adopts a goose as he son (Brightbill) and also becomes a mother. The robot ends up being discovered and returned to the factory. In this part II story, she ends up working on a farm-however she still remembers her past, even though for a while this is a secret she keeps.

One part of the story really struck me. She was thinking about the island and her son one day and realized that she could probably erase those memories from her computer brain and be relatively happier. So that is the question I asked my students to answer. Should Roz erase the memories of her past-it makes her sad to remember and to miss everyone or should she keep those memories.

Although my students really have only made about 2 years of memories in their little brains, I was impressed by the logic some of them used to answer the question. They also were pretty split in their answers-half keep/half erase.

Erase them-if she doesn't see her son again she will always feel sad.

Keep her memories of the island-just erase the memories of her son.

Keep because she's going to get in control.

Erase-because she might forget anyway.

Keep-to remember her cute little baby.

Erase because then she will be happy.

Keep because she will go back to the island again.