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Prologue: Island to Part One: How to Bury a Tree

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Shafak, Elif. The Island of Missing Trees. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021 Hardcover.

· In the Prologue titled “Island,” the island of Cyprus is introduced.

· The unknown narrator tells how they fled many years ago inside a black leather suitcase and went on a plane to England.

· They remember how beautiful the island was, even though it was divided by a partition that divided the capital city of Nicosia in two, and soldiers with machine guns guarded the border.

· It was the last divided city in Europe, and it was the narrator’s hometown.

· On a hill in Nicosia is an old well.

· Inside the well is an antique watch that has the inscription, “Arriving there is what you are destined for, But do not hurry the journey at...

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