Your summary will be laid out like an essay with paragraphs focused on your topics. You select two to three major events to explain; you explore what those events mean in the context of Doctorow’s intentions in the book as a whole; you respond with your opinion; and you evaluate two or three of his writing strategies. Your goal is to look at this “chunk” as a whole meaning unit to give your summary a focus.
But, remember, this is fiction. Everything else we’ve been reading is non-fiction. We approach fiction much differently than non-fiction. There is not a skeleton in fiction, so you needn’t go looking for that.
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