The first amendment says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
It says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion' in the first line, so, since congress can not make laws making us have a certain religion, we have the freedom to choose our religion.
Parks uses a chronological structure, narrating the story through her own perspective of the sequence of events that occurred. She describes the events from the event on the bus to the political and personal repercussions of what happened.
