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Quote and Part One, Chapters 1-7

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Darnielle, John. Universal Harvester. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. Hardcover.

• The novel is told in third person, omniscient.

• A Quote is summarized as saying that people with secrets only give signs of the secrets to their confidants, and that these secret holders can be cruel and unhappy.

• This suspenseful Quote poses a question to the reader about secrets and how and why people decide to keep them or share them with others.

• PART ONE, Chapter 1:

• The reader is introduced to the main character, Jeremy Heldt, who works at Video Hut, a local video rental company that exists in a small town: Nevada, Iowa.

• Video Hut does not have many customers, because it cannot not compete with the franchise stores that are beginning to open.

• The city, Nevada, is pronounced with...

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