Question

What is the effect of telling the events of this excerpt in the order in which they happen?Read the excerpt from Outcasts United.
Jeremiah made the team. But when Beatrice Ziaty found out her son was sneaking off to play soccer with strangers after school, she became angry. "You're too small," Beatrice scolded him. "Don't go out of the house!"


Jeremiah started to cry. He begged his mother to let him play, but Beatrice wasn’t going to let anything bad happen to her son. And she certainly wasn't going to be defied—not after all she'd done to get the family here. Inside, though, Beatrice was torn. She knew an eight-year-old boy needed to run. She knew it wasn't fair to keep him confined to a small apartment all the time.


"You say you have a coach," she finally said to Jeremiah. "Why you can't bring the coach to me to see?"


"Momma," he said, "I will bring her."

Answer 1

Answer:

Chronological order is useful when a writer wants to help readers understand  details and connections about the story's events.

In this excerpt we can clearly see the development of Jeremiah's mother. At first, she forbids him of playing soccer but she is torned because she knows that he should be out there playing. Then she is willing to consider it and talk to his coach.

It's a lineal chronological order that allows us to understand her personal and inner conflicts.