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Chapters 1-4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Tokarczuk, Olga. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. Riverhead Books, 2018. English Hardcover Translation.

• In Chapter 1, Janina Duszejko is an elderly woman who lives alone in a cabin in the woods in a remote settlement in Poland on the Czech border.

• There are seven other cabins in the woods, but the cabins are a distance from one another.

• One night after taking hops and valerian pills before bed, she is awakened by a neighbor of hers that she calls Oddball.

• He tells her that one of her other neighbors, whom she calls Big Foot, is dead.

• Even though Janina disliked Big Foot, she is shocked and horrified.

• She loves animals, and she disliked Big Foot because he was an avid hunter.

• When they go to his cabin, they find the man...

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