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Front Matter and Chapters 1 through 12

· The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Kingsolver, Barbara. Demon Copperhead. HarperCollins, 2022.

· Following a dedication and an epigraph, the novel begins with Chapter 1 and the eponymous narrating protagonist reporting his birth, remarking that “the worst of the job was up to me, my mother being let’s just say out of it” (1).

· The circumstances of the protagonist’s birth are detailed, and presumed predictions about the life that would follow that birth, based on its circumstances, are presented.

· The next section opines on other omens emerging from the circumstance of the protagonist’s birth.

· The third section of the chapter describes the location in which the protagonist was born and glosses some of his own family background and history.

· The protagonist notes his mother’s frequent recourse to rehabilitation and comments on the supposition that he was...

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