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· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Smith, Zadie. "Moonlit Landscape with Bridge." The New Yorker, 2014.

· The story opens with the Minister of Interior in a near empty marble room trying to decide which of the three suits laid out for him he should wear.

· The rest of the room is packed in boxes, waiting to be sent to Paris where the Minister is heading to join his wife and children.

· The Minister knows that his housekeepers will raid the boxes before they are shipped, and he is thankful that his favorite painting fits in his suit bag.

· The Minister is surprised at the sound of his own voice in the sparse room when he mutters, “So it goes” (1).

· Elena, the old housemaid, enters thinking the Minister called her and does not leave when he says he did not.

· The...

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