Your choices are Question, Announcement, Dialog, Challenging
statement, Riddle, Expression of feeling, Setting and Piques curiosity.
Remember, beginnings can also be a combination of these types.
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A. If you
are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading
some other book.
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Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events – A Bad
Beginning
B. Later,
I would think of it as crossing over. Maybe it was what my mother was doing,
too. Crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place
where people know you to a place where people only think they know you.
Like there’s an actual river you swim
across, an unpredictable, treacherous river, and if you make it to the father
shore, you’re a different person than the one you were when you started out.
- Joyce
Carol Oates, Freaky Green Eyes
C. The
stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a
driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it
seemed from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black
portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
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H.G.Wells, The Invisible Man
D. The
first time I read the ad, I choked and cursed and spat and threw the paper to
the floor."
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Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
E. Time is
not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
F. Somehow
I knew my time had come when Bambi Barnes tore her order book into little
pieces, hurled it into the air like confetti, and got fired from the Rainbow
Diner in Pensacola right in the middle of the lunchtime rush.
- Hope
Was Here by Joan Bauer
G. I did
two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I
joined the army.
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John Scalzi, Old Man's War
H. As the
Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks
into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of
the bustling place."
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William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
I. Not
every 13-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found
guilty.
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Avi, True confessions of Charlotte Doyle
J. Ten
days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge."
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Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
K. If you
were going to give a gold medal to the least delightful person on Earth, you
would have to give that medal to a person named Carmelita Spats, and if you
didn’t give it to her, Carmelita Spats was the sort of person who would snatch
it from your hands anyway.
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Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy
L. Through
the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.
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William Faulkner, The Sound and The Fury
M. Alice
was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the riverbank, and
of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister
was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the
use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversation?"
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Lewis Caroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
