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Part I (Pages 1 - 50)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Emezi, Akwaeke. The Death of Vivek Oji. Riverhead Books, New York, 2020.

• This novel is written in the past tense and from a number of different points of view, alternating between the first and third-person perspectives.

• In Chapter One, a single sentence, the market was burned down the day Vivek Oji died.

• In Chapter Two, Vivek Oji's father was Chika, and Chika's mother was Ahunna, and that was where Vivek's story began.

• Chika visited his mother at her house frequently, and one day Chika noticed Ahunna had her foot up where it had been injured.

• Ahunna had stepped on a stick, and her daughter-in-law Mary, Chika's brother's Ekene's wife, had taken Ahunna to the hospital.

• Chika felt guilty because he was attracted to Mary himself.

• Ahunna later had a scar the shape...

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