The first chapter of the novel “Big Mouth & Ugly Girl” is about Matt Donaghy. In this chapter he’s in school and prepares his one-act play with his friends.
The author first describes an ordinary atmosphere (p. 3, l. 15). You don’t think that something uncommon would happen. But then there is much suspense produced by describing the policemen as unknown people. In the beginning we don’t find something out about these men, they’re described in third person plural, so we have to make a guess, what they might want in school (p. 3, 17).
By the stream-of-consciousness-technique, the author uses regularly, we learn that Matt is innocent (p. 5, ll. 17-19). The writer wants to show that to us, because then we know that we’ve got to be critical while reading something about Matt, like the later rumors. We can almost see the anxiety of Matt, because he only thinks about what they could want, what might have happened or what will happen. He worries if something has happened to his parents. Matt often stammers or swallows so it’s definitely sure that he really doesn’t know what’s going on (p. 7, l. 6).
In my opinion this chapter is a good introduction of the book, because we find out that he’s didn’t do anything wrong. From that point we always believe in what he says. We know that the rumors are wrong and we can analyze why he is suspected of doing cruel things in the next chapters.
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