1. The novelist uses characterizations and settings to foreshadow the crime, before zooming in on it.
2. The request spotlighted how the growing costs of war and reconstruction have exceeded initial administration characterizations.
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3. The characterizations are funny and the storytelling is smooth despite some strange twists.
4. " I'm not going to get drawn into characterizations before I have even met her, " Kyl said.