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· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ghosh, Amitav. The Shadow Lines. Viking, 1989. Hardcover.

· In “Going Away,” the unnamed narrator tells how his father’s aunt, Mayadebi, went to England with her husband and son, Tridib, because Shaheb needed an operation.

· It was 1939, 13 years before the narrator was born.

· Mayadebi was 29 and Tridib was eight.

· Tridib told the narrator about the trip.

· The narrator lived with his parents and grandmother in a flat.

· His grandmother did not like Tridib, because she thought he was lazy and wasted his time.

· She made sure that there was nothing in their flat that could be used to waste their time.

· Tha’mma worked at her school teaching, the narrator’s mother did her housekeeping, and the narrator’s father worked at his job as a junior executive in a rubber company.

· Tridib had...

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