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Lesson 1 (from Prologue)

Objective

Prologue

"Brazzaville Beach" is the story of Hope Clearwater. Hope tells the story herself and actually follows two lines of thought, one of her former marriage to a math professor and the other, her life as a researcher at a chimpanzee preserve. The Prologue of the novel gives the reader some important background information. In addition, Hope tells readers what to expect from the story. Grasping this exposition is important to the reader because it provides a foundation for the remainder of the book. The objective of this lesson is to discuss exposition in "Brazzaville Beach" and identify elements of exposition in the Prologue.

Lesson

1) Class discussion: As a class, develop a working definition of the term "exposition." Exposition is introductory information that gives the setting, creates tone, presents characters and other important information. Write the definition on the board and have students record it in...

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