Beginning an essay or article can be one of the most difficult parts of your composition. As the first thing the reader sees, it better be something to catch their attention and trigger intrigue. It’s a difficult skill to craft effective beginnings, but once you learn to consider and apply the proper techniques consistently, you can make a seemingly bland topic become attractive when you are able to demonstrate its significance in a few thought-catching sentences.
An excellent beginning to a book that I read is the from the book I’m reading currently- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. It is a book about the early Mormon Church, but mainly about the FLDS. In order to to set the tone for a novel packed with grisly and disturbing details of a faith with a deeply troubled fundamentalist past and present, Krakauer opens with the details of a gruesome double homicide of a Mormon woman and her infant in American Fork(‘84) by two Mormon fundamentalist who were “commanded by god” to execute the act. Krakauer crafts the introduction by painting a the scene of humble, popular family of three in American Fork, two of which are suddenly and inexplicably murdered. Most murder stories can be written to captivate an audience, but the way Krakauer intertwines murder with a vision from god, excerpts from Mormon fundamentalist teachings, and a quaint American Fork family and community make for a tale you’d be inclined to think was fiction.
I thought I saw a typo the other day when I was looking at mountain bikes online. In the “enduro” bike category on the Trek website it said “relent less.” I thought to myself they must’ve meant to say their bike are “relentless.” However, I thought about it a little more and relent, which can mean to become more mild, also fits the description, because these particular enduro bikes are meant to perform well at high speeds or very technical terrain- so no need to become more mild tempered while riding. So, not really an error, just a play on words that I thought was pretty clever.
That is a very good play on words. There is just one problem, you should be looking at Specialized bikes. The Specialized Enduro is one bad bike!
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