The following literary techniques are explored in this story:
Exposition and Setting
Narrator and Major Character
Inciting Incident
Minor Character
Conflict
Rising Action
Climax
Resolution
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This story takes place on November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The narrator, a Puerto Rican girl, struggles “to feel the right thing” for the dead president, even while the national tragedy is overshadowed by a painful experience in her own life.
When have you felt excluded?
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