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-The Story is introduced to a family who lives in a small room in Chicago.
-There are 4 people sharing one room and they sleep on mats instead of beds.
-The mother insists that the boys turn around while she and the sister Vera dress.
-Then the mother senses a fear, a feeling of sort of Déjà vu, a rat scurries across the room and the mother and Vera hop on the bed while Buddy and Bigger try to kill it with a frying pan.
-Bigger puts the rat in his younger sisters faces and she is so afraid of it that she faints; he gets yelled at by the Mother.

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-Why did the Mother and Vera make Buddy and Bigger turn their heads while they dressed; were the ashamed?
-Was there any symbolism in the color of the rat being black and not a typical gray?
-How old is Vera or how much younger is she from Bigger?
-Will Bigger get a job like he desires?

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2 Literary Devices
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1 Sentence Overview
-In this first chapter, it explains that the Family is in deep poverty and explains their living Situations.