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Prologue and Part One: "Outside In" - "Marriage Parties"

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Burton, Jessie. The Miniaturist. Harper Collins, 2014. Ebook.

· The narrative of The Miniaturist is related in the present tense from a third-person narrator with focus on the thoughts and actions of protagonist 18-year-old Petronella “Nella” Elisabeth Oortman.

· The prologue, titled “The Old Church, Amsterdam, Tuesday, January 14th, 1687,” introduces a funeral scene that is observed by many, although the deceased “had no friends” (1).

· A woman watches the funeral from a distance, observing an unnamed girl.

· When the funeral assembly disperses, the woman places a tiny miniature house upon the grave.

· Part One is set in mid-October, 1686, at the Hengracht Canal in Amsterdam.

· The reader meets Nella as she knocks on the door of her new husband’s home.

· Nella was wed to Johannes Brandt a month ago in...

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