The opening lines of Eggers’ short story comment on the narrative that follows, establishing its own structure as one of its main concerns. We can trace this thread throughout the work: Eggers draws explicit attention to the seams of the story as they develop by embellishing the text with comments about the decisions he made while creating it. Writing prompts: (1) identify the argument Eggers is making by foregrounding structure in this way and (2) to answer the all-important “So what?” question of literary analysis: why does Eggers want us to care about his argument at all?