Hello
Everyone,
Here
is the opening that I chose from CNN about a woman who was raped by a member of
ISIS.:
Umm Al'aa has made a
vow: She will never tell her son who his father is.
Instead,
Mohammed will grow up surrounded by the love of his mother and half-brothers
and sisters.
He will never be told that his mother became pregnant with him
when she was raped by an ISIS militant while being held captive by the
terrorist group.
To me this was
exactly what a narrative type lead should look like. When looking into what a
narrative should have one of the things I read was that it needs a hook. It
needs to convince the reader that what they are reading is worth their time.
The hook in this story is that the mother will never tell her son about his
father. When reading this it makes me want to ask why, because it is not normal
that a woman would not tell her son about his father unless something drastic
happened. Continuing to read we find out why the hook was so good in this
story. I started reading this looking for a lead and before I realized I read
the entire story because of the hook in the lead. I feel that sometimes putting
the right words together for a narrative lead is an art form and cannot always
be done well.
This story makes me so sad, however, the lead is very well written. It definitely tells a story that captures us readers.
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