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Part I (Pages 1 - 61)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lethem, Jonathan. The Arrest. Harper Collins, New York, 2020.

• This book is written primarily in the past tense unless otherwise noted, and from the third-person point of view.

• In Chapter 1, Frost Heaves, which is written in the present tense, a narrator describes a road in a small Maine peninsula town that has a warning sign that reads "Frost Heaves."

• The sign makes the narrator think of the famous poet Robert Frost and of the poem about roads diverging. The narrator ruminates that any road that a person could follow in either of two directions is divergent.

• In Chapter Two, The Lake of Tiredness, the main character who calls himself Journeyman (whose given name is Alexander Duplessis, though most others call him Sandy) was making his daily delivery rounds.

• This chapter is written...

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