![]() Ways to start a story that engage your reader Or you could begin in the thick of action, as Ray Bradbury’s does in his classic novel, Fahrenheit 451. You could begin a novel with a narrator/character introducing himself, like Salinger’s Holden Caufield or Dickens’ David Copperfield. With cities lying in charred heaps at his back, Granger, a twenty-fourth-century Moses, guides his fellow rescuers of books toward an undisclosed promised land.Great authors show us there are many ways to start a story. He reveres his grandfather, a sculptor, for the humanistic spark he left behind. Granger represents the balance that has reentered the world and which will alleviate the dark age with a new spark of intellectual light. To defeat the trail-sniffing Hound, he offers the scent of a bobcat to dissociate Montag from his former odor by applying a safer olfactory identity. In contrast to Beatty and his Hound, Granger applies his own technological wizardry. Granger's pragmatic, uplifting words lead Montag from flight to the safety of the forest. Granger is the author of The Fingers in the Glove: The Proper Relationship between the Individual and Society, a capsule statement of Bradbury's theme. However, the warming, beneficial campfire surrounded by his coterie of book people contrasts with the malicious, doom-filled conflagrations set by Beatty. ![]() ![]() The foil of Captain Beatty, Granger is also associated with burning.
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