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Dune Lesson Plan

Introduction to Dune

Frank Herbert’s Dune is a science fiction novel about Paul Atreides, the 15-year-old son of Duke Leto, who travels to the desert planet Arrakis. After House Atreides is overthrown, Paul becomes a messiah-like figure to the native people of Arrakis, the Fremen, and he fulfills a millennia-long prediction that a man will be born with immense prescience that will allow him to see the past and future.

Herbert writes with a limited third-person perspective that can switch between characters from paragraph to paragraph and is at times ambiguous or omniscient. Some chapters follow Paul and the people who surround him, like his mother, Lady Jessica; other chapters follow House Harkonnen, the...

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