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Part I (Pages 1 - 50)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Cantu, Francisco. The Line Becomes a River. Riverhead Books, 2018.

• This book is a memoir written in the first person, and it alternates between the present and past tenses.

• In the Prologue, Cantu describes traveling across West Texas on a Thanksgiving trip with his mother.

• Cantu and his mother approach the Guadalupe Mountains and visit a national park there. Cantu's mother worked for the National Parks Service during her entire career.

• Cantu had been studying international relations and the border in college, and he and his mother were going to Ciudad Juarez on their way back to Arizona, where Cantu's mother lived.

• An old colleague of Cantu's mother at Guadalupe Mountains National Park tells them to be careful in Juarez because it is very dangerous there.

• Cantu and his mother take a...

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