Before beginning the unit on Zone One, the teacher should initiate a discussion with students about the sensitive topics that appear in the book, particularly suicide. Address suicide as it exists in real-life society and how it appears within the apocalyptic context of the book (and why the context matters). Provide suicide prevention resources for students. The novel also contains some violent and gruesome scenes described graphically; despite the fact that the world of the novel is fictitious and its circumstances are not akin to reality, give students a heads-up about the explicit violence that appears in the novel beforehand so they can be mentally prepared. Whitehead's critiques of...
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