There is a famous text in high school, "There is no news in Auschwitz", which has been called "an immortal famous article in American news writing". It was supposed to be a piece of news, but the headline said "nothing news." Is it "yes" or "no"? If there is "no", why write it? The 10-word headline satisfies the reader's appetite.
From the perspective of writing skills, this is to use the contrast effect of language to set up suspense, the reader knows that people are trying to get away with it, but even if they know, they still want to look down. If an essay can leave such a suspense at the beginning, it will be more than half successful.
In a city in Jiangsu Province, there was an essay question "I see the sun in ___", the content filled in by students on the horizontal line is generally related to family and school, such as "evening" and "classroom", etc. A student filled in "Nanjing", and the opening sentence was "Nanjing eighty years ago, there was no sun". There is now, but not in the past, why? Looking at this simple sentence, the reader's heart will instantly rise up a sense of pity, even if they know what is to be written under the article, they will still feel that the beginning is exquisite.
In a certain year, the key word in the Jiangsu college entrance examination essay question was "car", and there were several full-score essays that year that attracted widespread attention, such as the title and Han Han's "Peeping in the Cup" have the same magic as "Peeping in the Car", the whole text is writing Confucius, on Confucius's "Life on the Wooden Cart", and there is the "Poetics of the Car" to be said here.
The title is "The Poetics of the Car", the article should be to say that "the car" is full of poetry, and the beginning of the examination room essay is best to be straight to the point. But people are not like this, and when they pick up a pen, they say, "Who has ever heard of the poetics of a car?" Nothing". Is that "yes" or "no"? What does the author want to express? The composition firmly grasped the heart of the grading teacher in a matter of seconds.
Anyone who has been following the war between Ukraine and Russia in the past few days should have heard of this name - Chernobyl. In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant had a very serious nuclear leakage accident, the specific situation is not to say, in short, how a "tragic" word.
Years later, a high school student wrote an essay "The Road Back to Chernobyl" in his usual exams. You can "go back", of course, there is a "road", but the first sentence of this article is "back to Chernobyl, there is no road", this sentence is short, but it is enough to shock the heart. It is said that this article deducted only one point, which is equivalent to what we often call "full score essay", and its author was later admitted to Peking University. This opening is very genius, and one sentence opens up the pattern of the whole text.
This contrasting opening is used well, and the effect is very good. Of course, there are many ways to start, students who want to write a good composition, but also to see more and learn more, like the beginning of this "paper ladder" is also very good, directly point "paper ladder", directly let the protagonist "father" appear, simple, refreshing.