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Section 1: pp 1 - 10

· The following version of this story was used to create this lesson plan: Saroyan, William. “The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse.” My Name is Aram. Harcourt, Brace, and Company. New York. 1940. Pp. 1-16.

· The story opens with the first person narrator introducing when the story takes place – “the good old days” (3) when the narrator was nine.

· The narrator describes this as a time when “the world was full of every imaginable kind of magnificence, and life was still a delightful and mysterious dream” (3).

· The narrator’s cousin, Mourad, arrives at the narrator’s house at 4 a.m. and wakes him up by tapping his bedroom window.

· Most people think Mourad is “crazy” (3), but the narrator, Aram, does not.

· Aram jumps out of bed and peers through his window.

· To his surprise he sees Mourad “sitting on a beautiful white horse” (3).

· Mourad speaks in Armenian...

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