What aspects of setting are presented in the story and why? • What elements of the story explicitly or implicitly depict characters and their interrelationships? • What is the conflict in the story, and what is the literary and theological significance of that conflict? • What words, phrases, and sentences convey the mood of the story and its central motif or apparent purpose? • How do the characters and actions within this narrative relate to other parts of the larger narrative of which this story or section is a part?
