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"The Lost Year"

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the novel: And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, English and Spanish Edition. Translation by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. Turtleback Books, 1987. School and Library Binding.

• And the Earth Did Not Devour Him is divided into 14 chapters with a brief vignette following all but the final chapter.

• In the first chapter, “The Lost Year,” a third-person narrator introduces the reader to an unnamed protagonist who finds himself at a loss for words and memories.

• The protagonist wonders who calls his name but turning around, realizes that he had called himself.

• The vignette that follows this chapter is titled “What His Mother Never Knew…”

• This brief vignette, narrated again by a third-person narrator, describes a boy whose mother always puts a glass of water under his bed for the spirits.

• The boy always drinks the water and...

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