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Prologue-Chapter 15

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Won-pyung, Sohn. Almond HarperCollins, 2020. Hardcover.

• In “Notes,” the author explains that alexithymia is the inability to identify and express one’s feelings.

• It is a mental disorder first described in medical journals in the 1970s.

• Known causes include lack of emotional development during early childhood, post-traumatic stress disorder, and smaller inborn amygdalae.

• Studies suggest that the ability of the amygdalae to process fear and anxiety can be improved through training.

• In the “Prologue,” Yunjae states that everyone has almonds inside them, and he introduces himself as a monster.

• He says he will not tell the reader if his story has a happy or tragic ending.

• He says that no one “can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic.” (unnumbered page of the “Prologue.”)

• In Part 1, Chapter 1, Yunjae tells how his mother...

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