FiRsT PaRT LAsT- FlAshBAck

FLASHBACK= a literary technique in which a scene of a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.

I think the author, Angela Johnson, wrote her story, First Part Last, in flashbacks because it makes the story sound more interesting. She probably also wrote the story in flashbacks because it's different than how most books are written. I like how the story was written because it says what he's going through and also what he went through at the same time. Yes, it's true that she could have just wrote the story in order but I think using the flashbacks makes the story more interesting.