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The
beginning of a story is one of the most important aspects to a piece, if not
the most important part. One would want to grab a reader’s attention as quickly
and effectively as they can, so that the reader continues on and is engrossed
in the entirety of a piece. Having now read Jhumpa Lahiri’s story, A Temporary Matter, I would say that she
did an exemplary job at grabbing my attention, though this was not immediate.
It wasn’t until I reached the part where the baby was born dead that I had to see what happened next.
I
have a hard time defining anything as what I would prefer to read when it comes
to the opening, because as long as something is gripping, and interesting
enough, I would most likely read on. As an example of a story that I have read,
in which I was quite pleased with the opening, would be Neil Gaiman and Terry
Pratchett’s novel Good Omen’s. I used this book before in the previous blog,
but I feel that the excerpt that I talked about before, which was the beginning,
is quite strong and sets up the pace and general tone of the book as a whole,
as well as introducing the plot and main characters. It is also quite funny, so
there is that.
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