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ACTIVITY 1: “The Supplement’s Memoir”
Choose one of the children referred to in The Compound as the “Supplements.” Imagine that it is many years after their escape into the outside world, and the person is now a teenager or young adult. From this perspective, write a brief first-person narrative about an experience that led to an important discovery about life outside the Compound. Your narrative should continue one of the major thematic motifs from the novel.
Part A: Decide some basic information about your narrative: