Everything I Never Told You Lesson Plan

At the beginning of the book, we are informed that Lydia is dead before her family is even aware that she’s gone. How does this knowledge impact our expectations and interpretations of the events in Chapter One?

As the reader, we know that there’s no hope the family will find Lydia alive. The family notices Lydia is gone and they look for her, but we know the best they can hope to find is her dead body. They ask around for clues, but we know any clues they find won’t restore Lydia to them. They wait for news, but we know the only news that matters, news they will eventually know too (the fact that the first line says her family doesn’t know that she’s dead “yet,” is a...