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Choose a first line that appeals to you. Read it closely.

What does the line tell you about the book?

Complete the handout for Unit 0: SHIFT Your Perspective.

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.

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Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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A boy is coming down a flight of stairs.

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A boy is coming down a flight of stairs.

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Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

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The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

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The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

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Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

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Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely, All American Boys

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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To Mrs. Saville, England: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

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To Mrs. Saville, England: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.

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Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

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They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

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They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

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Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

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Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

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There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

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C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.

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The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh flats.

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Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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Samuel Beckett, Murphy

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The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead several weeks before we understood the gravity of our situation.

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The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead several weeks before we understood the gravity of our situation.

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Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

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William Gibson, Neuromancer

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The moment one learns English, complications set in.

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The moment one learns English, complications set in.

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Felipe Alfau, Chromos

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The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed him.

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The Man in Black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed him.

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Stephen King, The Gunslinger

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The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-wracked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

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The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-wracked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

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Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea

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Tom Angleberger, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.

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Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Nobody ever walked across the bridge, not on a night like this.

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Nobody ever walked across the bridge, not on a night like this.

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Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night

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My two favorite things to do with my time are helping people and looking at cat pictures.

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My two favorite things to do with my time are helping people and looking at cat pictures.

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Naomi Kritzer, Catfishing on CatNet

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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

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Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

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Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

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Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.

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It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.

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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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It was a nice day. All the days had been nice.

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It was a nice day. All the days had been nice.

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Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

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Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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George Orwell, 1984

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It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.

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It seems increasingly likely that I really will undertake the expedition that has been preoccupying my imagination now for some days.

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Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of 🤬, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of 🤬, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

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J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.

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If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.

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Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

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Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

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Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

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I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites.

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I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites.

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Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)

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Elizabeth Wein, Code Name Verity

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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

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Raphael Sabatini, Scaramouche

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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

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He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.

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Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary.

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First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary.

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Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

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At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time—between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m.—by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them. 

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At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time—between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m.—by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them. 

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John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow