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Part I (The Bull - You Guys, Pages 1 - 21)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Vuong, Ocean. Time is a Mother. Penguin, New York, 2022.

• This collection is written primarily in the present tense and from the first-person perspective, unless otherwise noted.

• In "The Bull," written in the past tense and from the first-person perspective, a bull appeared in the speaker's backyard, and the speaker is a young boy.

• The speaker asked the bull what he wanted, and the speaker did not want to think the bull was beautiful, but he admitted the bull was beautiful.

• In "Snow Theory," the speaker is amazed by a snow storm, finding stillness in peace in it, and noting that he, the speaker, has not "killed a thing" since bonding with his mother in the snow storm (5).

• In "Dear Peter," the speaker is a young man...

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