In the fourth sentence of the passage (I moved ... Step ) the word "premeditated indicates that the narrator

The word "premeditated" used by the author, indicates that the narrator is being very cautious as he navigates the fire escape.

Explanation:

The narrator of Open City by Teju Cole has found himself in an unenviable situation where he was locked out of the theater and had to use the fire escape to leave the building. However, the fire escape had very flimsy stairs so he had to be very careful and thing about his every step so as not to fall down and die.

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).