This time read all of chapter two to get the flow of the entire narrative. The question: who or what is the central focus of this story? Is it primarily about an event or a person? Which event or which person.
The reason for identifying that focus? It points us to the lesson God wants us to get from the narrative. It’s sometimes too easy to get distracted by relatively unimportant features of the story and miss what really matters.
The way to go about identifying the focal point? As you read look to see if most of the sentences are about action or about what’s said. Then, if conversation is the majority of the content, who does most of the talking? Whose name appears most often.
Use a pencil and circle every occurrence of a person’s name in this chapter. Count them. What was your total for each person?
What does God want us to concentrate on in this story?

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