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Section 1: "Part One: The Pampas": "It Was the Brightness of the Light" through "Lost in Thought, into the Muck I Sank"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela. The Adventures of China Iron. Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre, trans. Charco Press, 2019. Paperback.

• "Part One: The Pampas" begins with the chapter "It Was the Brightness of the Light."

• The title of the chapter is also its first line.

• A puppy is running around excitedly among older dogs; they have cracked, dry skin from the heat, but not the puppy.

• The narrator draws an explicit connection between poverty and this kind of suffering and notes that the puppy is too young to have yet experienced the effects of poverty.

• This poverty is "as much a lack of ideas as anything else" (1).

• The narrator is also poor; she wants the...

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