![]() Or even odder things that usually do not have a whole lot to say people. The voices are not just disembodied sounds coming from nowhere, however, they belong to objects readily identifiable. And is the onset of these voices that drives the narrative. He is a teenager whose father has recently died. ![]() He thought he could hear words tangled up inside the sounds, but he couldn’t understand them. Sometimes he heard her crying, too, and it scared him, but this was different. They weren’t loud, just a low swelling ooooooooooοΟOOOOooooOOOoooo that were like ghosts or people moaning, but softly so no one would hear. The noises sounded like voices, coming from the shadows. Although the prefatory sections are important, this is really the best choice of them as an opening line because it is the voices that make the story unique. But before the reader gets here, there is a short prefatory section titled “In the Beginning” followed by another short prefatory section titled “A Boy” but this is the first line with a section that includes an actual chapter number. This quote is the opening one-sentence paragraph to Chapter One of Part One. ![]() Alas, it is a complicated thing to identify what are technically the first lines. It would be nice to say that these are the opening words of the novel if only because the voices are of such significance to the story. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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