The way in which paragraph 1 contributes to the development of the story’s theme in the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county is:
- The narrator hears about Smiley and his crazy deception tales to other people which he sees no point in. But he realizes he got deceived by his friend to get told unuseful stories by wheeler that would bore him to death.
What is a Theme?
This refers to the central message of a text and is the underlying concept which teaches moral lessons.
With this in mind and from the complete text, we can see that in the paragraph 1, there is the use of narration to talk about the deception which Smiley uses and later finds out that his friend tricked him.
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