One reason I feel Chang-Rae Lee starts his essay out in the middle of the events is to create a hook and a reason to continue reading. It makes me curious to find out what chain of events leads to his mother being on an electronic pump. It also gives me a way to connect visually when he says, “From anywhere in the house, you could hear the sound of the wheels clicking out a steady time over the grout lines…”. That makes me think of a mini shopping car that my nephew loves to push along the tile floor in my mother’s house. I can hear the wheels along the grout lines just as he describes in his story. The way he describes the story make me feel as if I am right there with him, going through what he is going though. I think that everybody is