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The Arrest: Chapters 1-23

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: King, Stephen. The Outsider. 2018. Gallery Books, Print.

• The epigraph of The Outsider focuses on the nature of reality and consists of a single quote from Colin Wilson’s “The Country of the Blind,” which states, “Thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show” (i).

• Since there are two Arlenes and two Bills in the narrative,--Arlene Stanhope, Arlene Peterson, Bill Samuels, and Bill Hodges--last names are included whenever these characters are discussed within the lesson plan.

• The first section of The Outsider is entitled The Arrest.

• The narrative of The Outsider is set within a fictional and relatively small town in the state of Oklahoma called Flint City.

• In The Arrest: Chapter 1, a police car approached the baseball field at...

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