Chapter 1 Opening

The opening is very clear of what the author wants to talk about in the book. However, I think she explained all of these situations in the book about her life because even though she wasn't affected with the decisions that many people took back there. Now, she feels like its part of her life and its something that people must speak about. Therefore, maybe because it took place in her hometown
 she can easily recapitulate all of these history that happened and that her family had huge part in.
Therefore, it was easily for her ask many of the people that she knows that had a great part in the history. Like the leader who took the initiative of started the new white school that she attended, Mr Taylor. She mentioned that she knew him her whole life, that she used to hang out with his grandchildren and that his father was a friend of him. Additionally, it is a way for her to understand and to assimilate that maybe her family is going to feel the same that the black community felt back there, that's why she wants to make people to questioned this and also to tell her story about it.