Answer:
To show the first human failure that contributed to the spread of the fire.
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"The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy is children's story about the 'Great Fires of Chicago' that burned down almost half of Chicago.
Jim Murphy started the story with the fire and then proceeded to tell of how the families were. By starting the story <em>in medias res</em>, he brings to the point the failures of humans that eventually led to the fire. Though the fire brought out the real issues of the families against each other, Jim didn't mention them before the fire. Instead, he focused on the fire first and then begins the background of the story.
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He talks about when re receives the devastating news and he talks about his mourning. He can't even see straight because all he can think of is his lover. At her funeral, he can't even bear to listen. He then goes to her grave. He weeps and weeps only to then stay there for hours. He then leaves her grave falling upon another grave in which the corpse comes out of this grave. Then all at once, all the corpses come out of the grave changing their headstone inscriptions. He runs to his lover to see what she changes it to and she changes it to "' Having gone out in the rain one day, to deceive her lover, she caught a cold and died." He looks at it and you know he feels betrayal. All in all the story shows love, grief, and betrayal.
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