Answer:Throughout this first chapter Pfeffer is establishing normalcy. She's giving the reader a glimpse of Miranda's typical life as a baseline for the ways in which she'll be breaking down that construct in future chapters.
It is a way to find out the purpose that is going to be achieved in a short story and to list details about it.
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The Federal soldiers are the antagonists.
