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Part I (Pages 1 - 40)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Trethewey, Natasha. Memorial Drive. HarperCollins, New York, 2020.

• This book was written from the first person point of view and in a mix of the past and present tenses.

• Trethewey begins the book by recounting a dream she had three weeks after her mother's death.

• In the dream, Trethewey walks with her mother around an oval track. Her mother has a wound in her forehead through which light can be seen.

• Trethewey's mother asks her if she knows what it means to have a wound that never heals.

• Trethewey alludes to the fact that her mother was killed by a bullet.

• In the dream, there is a man, and Trethewey alludes to the fact that he is responsible for her mother's death.

• In the Prologue, Trethewey writes in the present tense and...

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