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Pages 63-65a

· The text of the short story, “The Prison,” that was used to create this Lesson Plan, was taken from the book: Bernard Malamud. The Complete Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. Hardcover.

· On pages 63-65a, Tommy Castelli is 29 and bored with his life.

· He runs a low-profit candy store with his wife, Rosa, and he hates the slow hours and dealing with customers.

· He feels as though he is trapped in his old mistakes.

· When he was a kid, he went by the name, Tony, but his wife changed that.

· When he was a kid, he had dreams and schemes and plotted how he would leave the crowded tenement with its poverty and noise.

· When he was 16, he quit the vocational school where he was learning to be a shoemaker, and started to hang out with the shoe boys, who were petty criminals.

· The boys...

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