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Chapters 1-9

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Backman, Fredrik. The Winners. Atria Books, 2021. Hardcover.

· In Chapter 1, “Stories,” everyone who knows Benjamin Ovich, especially those who call him Benji, knows that he will never get a happy ending.

· They hope, but they know that “boys like Benji die young. They die violently” (1).

· In Chapter 2, advice is always given to keep hockey and life simple.

· The narrator thinks that probably should relate to stories as well.

· Two years ago, Maya Andersson moved away from Beartown after she was raped by Kevin Erdahl.

· The sequence of events that followed the rape “affected political decisions . . . [and] led to a spring and summer of terrible betrayals, then to an autumn and winter of violence (3).

· The men in black jackets from Beartown known as “the Pack” (3) attacked their enemies in Hed, and the men in Hed...

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