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Part I (Pages 1 - 86, Chapters 1 - 4)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Stuart, Douglas. Young Mungo. Grove Atlantic, New York, 2022.

• This book was written entirely in the past tense and from the third-person perspective.

• Though the book is in the past-tense, Stuart switches between a fishing trip that takes place during which the protagonist, Mungo, endures terrible assaults and then commits two murders, and Mungo's backstory from the months preceding this trip.

• The first section is titled "The May After." In Chapter One, Mungo, a 15 year-old boy living in Glasgow, was going on a fishing trip with two men who his mother, Mo-Maw, vaguely knew and he did not know at all.

• Mungo did not want to go and kept turning back to his mother's flat to see her at the window, looking for sympathy.

• Mungo and the men started their...

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