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Chapters 1-5

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Allende, Isabel. Violeta. Ballantine Books, 2022. Hardcover.

· In a letter dated September 2020, Violeta writes a letter to a person named Camilo.

· She intends to leave him a testimony of her life.

· In Part 1, “Exile (1920-1940),” Violeta was born on a stormy Friday in 1920 during the Spanish influenza epidemic.

· Her mother had already given birth to five sons.

· The oldest, Jose Antonio, was 17.

· Maria Gracia, Violeta’s mother, labored with the help of her sisters, Pilar and Pia.

· They were all surprised to see the baby was a girl.

· Arsenio Del Valle, Violeta’s father, was a businessman.

· The pandemic did not take Arsenio by surprise.

· He kept up with the world news through foreign newspapers and a radio he built himself.

· The first cases appeared in the houses of ill repute near the port...

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