Motivation

I find Chapter 8 as an appropriate time to discuss motivation. The entire chapter is about sex. The students didn't ulnderstand what the gaurdians wanted them to do about sex. The reason this misunderstanding existed is that each side had different motivations for sex. The gaurdians believed, for themselves, that "sex was for when you wanted babies." The students had sex if they were close to somebody, or if they wanted practice. They didn't face nearly as serious consequences. Clearly, this civilization doesn't have a set moral standard regarding sex, so differences arise between the "normals" and the students. Kathy's motivation for sex is for practice for later on. Not exactly moral.

Ps. Take a took at the last sentence on the 4th full paragraph of page 97. "Parallel universe" - a fun physics theory like Hyperspace!