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Chapter I: The Call

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Donoghue, Emma. Akin. Little, Brown, and Company, 2019. E-book.

• Before Chapter I: The Call begins, Donoghue includes four photographs and one epigraph consisting of two different definitions of the adjective “akin” (8).

• Chapter I: The Call begins on page 12.

• The first line of the novel is a fragment that states, “An old man packing his bags” (12).

• As Noah, a 79-year-old man, packs for a trip to Nice, France that will be happening in three days, he hears the voice of his late wife Joan inside his head.

• The trip to Nice is meant to be a celebration of Noah’s 80th birthday and a nostalgia trip to the place where he spent his first four years of life.

• Noah only retired from his position as a college professor one month before the narrative...

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