The problem is that there is still little agreement about what happened in chapter one.
"It's like, if this is happening, try Chapter 6, but if you really think it's more this, try Chapter 7, because Chapter 6 might be, I don't have enough milk, but Chapter 7 might be, my baby's colicky, and Chapter 9 might be, like, reality check, what should I expect from a newborn?
"You see fat bits and thin bits, you think, why is nothing happening around chapter seven?
I eventually got around this problem by opening up one of my favourite books, studying the plot and writing down exactly what happened in each chapter.
Write down the most important story elements and character developments that happened in each chapter.
Not only can these help you remember what happened in a chapter, they will give you evidence to use when you make claims about the text in your exam.
"The World Is Spiky" is one of a succession of far-flung musings loosely tied together by frequent alerts on what's happened in previous chapters and what will be discussed in those to come.
The reason I left it in was because I thought, if in chapter four you see this happen, when in chapter 12 I'm rampaging round having it off with prostitutes, you might see a corollary.
How this boon to tax advisers happened is yet another chapter in the partisan gridlock common to Washington these days.
You read this book backwards with information coming your way that fills in events that happened in the previous chapter.
