Internal conflict quotes in fahrenheit 45110/19/2023 ![]() ![]() This effect is similar to Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Reader, I married him’ in Jane Eyre.Īnother strong example of this story opening type, the protagonist/narrator introduction, is Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955). Being addressed directly by the narrator creates a sense of closeness and familiarity. This opening is effective because we get a strong sense of the character’s personality in his terse use of curse words, slang and adjectives (‘crap’, ‘lousy’). ‘If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.’ J.D. From the first line, the reader gets to know a characterful narrator.įor example, Salinger’s Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) has a strong voice and clear, disaffected teen persona: These novels typically use first person narration. This is how to start a story about a character coming of age or grappling with internal conflict. ![]() Watch the summary video on ways to begin stories now, then read discussion of the story beginnings below: Introduce readers to a memorable narrator-protagonist
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