What kind of beginnings are these?

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.

-         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.

-         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."

-         Daniel Quinn, Ishmael

E.   Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

-         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.

-         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."

-         William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

I.   Not every 13-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty.

-         Avi, True confessions of Charlotte Doyle

J.  Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge."

-         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.

-         Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

L.  Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.

-         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?"

-         Lewis Caroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland