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Part I (pages 1 - 50)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight. Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

• Part One is titled "A Table Full of Strangers" and begins in 1945. The novel is written in the first-person past tense through narrator Nathaniel Williams.

• Nathaniel was 14 and his sister Rachel was almost 16 when their parents informed them they will be moving to Singapore without the children for work for about one year.

• The parents left the children in the care of two men whom Nathaniel and his sister thought could be criminals.

• Mr. Williams worked for Unilever. Though not close, his father took Nathaniel to the office once, where Nathaniel remembered a large display of maps showing Unilever's offices all over the world.

• Nathaniel's house was in London in Ruvigny Gardens.

• At the last minute, Nathaniel's mother stayed behind their father and spent several...

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