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How I Learned to Drive Summary & Study Guide Description
How I Learned to Drive Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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How I Learned to Drive Plot Summary
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How I Learned to Drive is not told with a straightforward plot but is instead an uneven mixture of flashbacks, narration, monologues, and the kind of impersonal voice-over that accompanies driver education films. It starts with Li'l Bit as an adult, addressing the audience, as if she is giving a lecture about how to drive. She describes Maryland during her youth in the 1960s, and then the setting dissolves into 1969, with her uncle Peck sitting in a Buick Riviera. Seventeen-year-old Li'l Bit climbs in next to him. He takes the role of a child, telling her that he has been good, and she acts like an authority figure to him. When he says that he has not had a drink all week, she allows him the "small reward" of undoing her bra. When they leave their parking spot, Li'l Bit drives.
At a family dinner in 1969, the...
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