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"The Dialectic" - "Words and Music"

• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Smith, Zadie. Grand Union. Penguin Press, 2019. Kindle edition.

• Zadie Smith’s Grand Union is a collection of 19 short stories spanning a variety of different narrative styles, plot structures, and explorations into literary technique.

• “The Dialectic” is related from the perspective of a third-person narrator with limited focus on the character of the unnamed woman.

• A woman and her daughter are sitting on a beach in Sopot when the woman says, “I would like to be on good terms with all animals” (3).

• The woman’s teenage daughter tells her that she is not and then mocks her.

• The woman is holding a half-eaten chicken wing in her hand and this is what had spurred her thought.

• The daughter complains about the beach but the woman recalls coming here in...

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