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Chapters I and II

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Melchor, Fernanda. Hurricane Season. New Directions, 2016. E-book.

• The epigraph of the novel contains two different quotes.

• One of the quotes is taken from W.B. Yeats’s famous poem entitled “Easter, 1916” and the other is an author’s note from the text of The Dead Girls.

• Jorge Ibarguengoitia includes a note at the beginning of The Dead Girls that states, “Some of the events described here are real. All of the characters are invented” (5).

• Chapter I begins on page 7.

• Five boys are making their way from the river to the canal.

• They have “their slingshots drawn for battle” (7) and they take turns carrying a pail of rocks that they will use for ammunition.

• The leader of the group is wearing red swim trunks, while the four boys trailing behind him are...

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