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Prologue-Chapter 8

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Jewell, Lisa. The Family Upstairs. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2019. Hardcover.

· The story is told from the viewpoints of three narrators: Henry Lamb, Jr., Libby Jones, and Lucy Lamb.

· Henry tells his own story in the past tense, except for a few instances when he inserts information from the present.

· Libby and Lucy's chapters are told in the present tense by a third-person narrator.

· In the Prologue, an unnamed narrator says that he did not really have a normal childhood, but it seemed normal because that was all he had known.

· Later readers learn that the narrator is Henry.

· Looking back, he realized that his childhood was odd.

· He was 11 and his sister nine when some unidentified people came.

· They lived with them for more than five years and turned “everything very, very dark” (1).

· He and...

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