Question 1: What characteristics make this a feature story lead? Use an example from the lead below to support your answer. Answer in 1-2 complete sentences.

Question

An endearing scene inside a sprawling home in Center Grove. A baby bulldog known as Blue IV is peacefully sleeping on the floor, curled up in a tiny ball alongside his sister, Pickles. Both puppies are visibly distinct with their bodies covered in brown fur and faces masked with white. Their bodies are covered in wrinkles, blurring the line between where one puppy ends and the other begins. Also present in the image is a man named Evan Krauss, who is approaching the puppies with an evident purpose - to train Blue IV to be the next live mascot for Butler.

Question 1: What characteristics make this a feature story lead? Use an example from the lead below to support your answer. Answer in 1-2 complete sentences.

GREENWOOD - Soon enough this will be the most famous bulldog in the Midwest, but right now Blue IV is an anonymous little puppy asleep on the floor. We're inside a sprawling home in Center Grove, and Blue IV is curled up in a ball with his sister, Pickles. Both are brown in the body and white in the face and wrinkly all over, and it's hard to know where one puppy ends and the next puppy begins. But we're about to find out.
Because here comes Evan.
Full name: Evan Krauss. Actual job, as in, he gets paid to do this: Bring home Blue IV and train him to be Butler's next live mascot.

Answer 1

This is a feature story lead because it sets a scene and introduces colorful characters. The example, "We're inside a sprawling home in Center Grove, and Blue IV is curled up in a ball with his sister, Pickles," helps paint a vivid picture and grabs the reader's attention.