Buffalo Flats, Ep. 2: Opening Scene

Erin takes us through the powerful opening scene of Martine Leavitt’s YA novel Buffalo Flats and examines how the elements of the first scene set up the entire novel–character, desire lines, themes, setting, voice, tone, humor, and more.

Links:

• Martine Leavitt’s Buffalo Flats
• The Sound of Music
• Hadestown
• Six
• A tor
• Nerd term: limited omniscient
• A KidLit Craft post on an omniscient narrator that use sections of limited omniscience.

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