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Chapters 1-2 (The Trip to The Fanatic)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lalami, Laila. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2005. Paperback.

• In Chapter 1, Murad thinks about the 14 kilometer boat ride that separate him from leaving Morocco and entering pain.

• He is in an inflatable boat meant for eight people, but filled with 30.

• He knows he will have to work in the fields at first, but he has a degree in English and speaks Spanish fluently.

• He sits next to a girl named Faten who is maybe 18 or 19.

• Across from him is a man named Aziz who is trying his second crossing.

• Next to Murad is a man with a scar across his cheek.

• The man says that he is a tennis instructor.

• He stares at the ten-year-old girl next to him, who provides her name when...

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