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How do cause and effect drive the events in Jim Murphy’s account of
the Chicago fire?

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The cause-and-effect structure helps the reader understand how specific people's decisions affected the spread of the fire. Read this excerpt from The Great Fire. As soon as the first shouts of "Fire!" were heard, scores of people swarmed toward De Koven Street.

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