Satirical Techniques In 'Mongering' By Philip Rivera

Rather than having a traditional plot with rising action, climax, and resolution, the novel presents the fragmented memories of a young boy. Some of the stories and anecdotes are told by the boy, some by a third-person narrator, and others are told through dialogue. The technique used by Rivera is called “fragmenting” because he presents incomplete pieces of information, covering a large range of experiences without the constraints of a chronologically ordered series of