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Part I (Pages 1 - 60)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: McCarthy, Tom. Remainder. Vintage Books, New York, 2005.

• This book is written in a blend of past and present tenses and from the first person perspective.

• In Chapter 1, the unnamed narrator cannot remember much about the accident that changed his life forever except that something fell from the sky on him.

• When the reader meets the narrator, the narrator is just getting a call from his lawyer, Marc Daubenay, who is very excited to tell the narrator that the settlement for his accident has come through and that it is 8.5 million pounds, a staggering sum.

• Switching to the past tense, when Daubenay told the narrator the settlement had come through, he was shocked and the shock prompted him to pull the phone cord and extension right out of the wall.

• The narrator...

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