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Section 1 - Part I: Chapters 1 - 7

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Desai, Anita. Fire on the Mountain. Penguin Group, 1981.

• Part I is entitled Nanda Kaul at Carignano.

• Chapter 1 begins on page 3.

• Chapter 1 opens with the main character, Nanda Kaul, in her small cabin in Carignano in Kasauli.

• Alone, Nanda notices a postman and hopes he does not stop at her house and disturb her solitude.

• Nanda had come to Carignano to “be done with them all,” the “bags and letters, messages and demands, requests, promises and queries” (3).

• Nanda wanted nothing more than to be alone in Carignano, free from intrusions and distractions.

• Nanda leers at the postman, hoping her stare will send the message to him that she came to Carignano to be alone.

• The next paragraphs offer a description of the “barrenness” (4) of Carignano.

• Desai describes the emptiness of...

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