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Part I, Sections 1 - 8

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Ghosh, Amitav. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable. The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Kindle Edition.

• The Great Derangement is a nonfiction book by Amitav Ghosh. In this narrative, Ghosh addresses climate change and our resistance to address it from the perspectives of the arts, politics, and history.

• The first and by far longest of the three parts that the book is divided into is the first, titled “Stories.” This section is primarily devoted to literature in the form of the contemporary novel.

• In Part I, Section 1, Ghosh compares the moment when you realize that an inanimate object is animate, such as reaching for a vine and realizing it is a snake, to the realization that the Earth is an animate being as well.

• In Part I, Section 2, the...

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