comment on structure

Two relatively common structural techniques are employed in Mutant Message Down Under. The first of these is to start the narrative immediately with an incident (in this case the departure from the hotel and the journey through the desert) instead of with explanation of background (exposition). The second is to leave the narrative at a high point of interest (in this case, the beginning of the author's physical journey into the unknown) and divert into said exposition just long enough for the reader to become eager to find out what's going to happen next. That being said, the sense of rawness evident in the use of language throughout the book (see above) is also present in its structure.