Structure

“How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the State? It Was Easy” by Alice Walker follows a simple, monologue-like structure in which a first-person female narrator recounts how she came to kill a l…

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Beginning

The exposition contains a detailed backstory on the narrator and her mother which is character-building, helping readers better understand the narrator and her circumstances: “My mother and father were not married. I never knew him. My mother must have loved him, though; she never talked against him when I was little. It was like he never existed. We li…

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Middle

The middle of the short story focuses on the narrator’s relationship with the lawyer she later comes to call Bubba.

In the rising action, Bubba sees the narrator when she comes with her mother to his house, where the mother works as a maid. The next day, although he is married with children, he picks the narrator up from school and rapes her:

But he kept touching me and I was scared... he raped me. But afterwards he told me he hadn't forced me, that I felt something…

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Ending

In the falling action, the narrator presents how she left the scene of the crime and took Bubba’s money planning to go to college with it, and how the police assumed it was an armed robbery: “No one came after me, and I read in the paper the next day that he'd been killed by burglars. I gues…

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