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“Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Le, Nam. The Boat. Alfred A. Knopf. 2008. 1st ed.

• The first story, “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice,” begins on page 3.

• The narrator, Nam, wakes from a dream to find that his father is standing outside his bedroom door.

• Nam sees that it is 11:44 and tells his father he expected him later.

• Nam’s father tells him his flight was changed and he had tried to call but got no answer.

• The father urges his son out of bed with a Vietnamese proverb, “A day lived, a sea of knowledge earned” (4).

• Nam gets out of bed and shakes his father’s hand and tells him he can sleep in his room.

• The father comments on his son’s piano...

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