In my opinion I think the professor has assigned this as the first story of the course for a few reasons. I think the first reason could be the story is really interesting and it caught our attention and especially me. The title of it made me wonder what is the story about and this made me get excited and start reading to keep reading to try to understand what it is about. Another reason could be because the story is well written and we will get to read it and annotate it for good Thesis and statements and many more related to our understanding of essays. Lastly I also believe this could help us understand how to write essays well. This could be a good example for great essays to learn from. In concussion I believe the professor chose this for us for a great benefit and I’m so excited to find out the main reason behind it.