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Introduction, Prologue, and Part One: The Greatest Nation on Earth, Chapters 1-9

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lee, Hyeonseo. The Girl with Seven Names. William Collins, 2015. Print.

· The Girl with Seven Names is a memoir by Hyeonseo Lee, and its narrative is related in the first person from the author’s point of view.

· The Introduction comes from the text of Lee’s TED talk in 2013, where she first related her story in English before a crowded auditorium in Long Beach, California.

· Lee explains that her current name is not one she was born with, but one that she gave herself.

· Hyeon means sunshine and Seo “means good fortune” (xi).

· In her speech, Lee compares leaving North Korea to traveling to another planet and realizing that you have been brainwashed your entire life.

· Lee hopes to enlighten others through her...

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