What is interesting about the opening of this novel?
The reason I found this opening so interesting was because I saw some relevance to my own life in the line 'the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it'. I have often found myself pondering similar thoughts because of troubled social situations in the past, or when someone has upset me.
Also, from the first few words 'Ye wake in a corner' I was left wondering weather the writer was talking about himself or someone else, which after reading, meant I was interested to know the answer and read on. The same applies to the closing line - 'Ye're no a good man, ye're just no a good man'. We are left wondering why this person, weather it is the writer or someone else, is not a 'good man'.
This is a good response. Sometimes a piece of writing is effective because we relate to the experience being described.
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