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• The following version of this book was used to create the lesson plan: Donoghue, Emma. The Pull of the Stars. Harper Avenue, 2020.

• The story begins in the present, though it is written in past tense.

• The narrator cycled along the early morning rainy Dublin streets and described her surroundings.

• The narrator would bike all the way to the hospital except that the Matron disapproved of her nurses arriving sweaty; therefore, she biked most of the way and then would catch a tram for the last leg of her commute.

• On her walk to the tram, she continued to describe what she passed including a makeshift war memorial, remembering just a few of the tens of thousands of lost Irishmen; this memorial reminded her of her brother, who she had left at home.

• The narrator told the reader she would turn 30 the next day.

• On the packed tram...

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