College Entrance Examination Preparation: How to Start a Narrative Material Essay Question

Tang Biao, an essayist in the Qing Dynasty, said: "The outline of the entire article is in the first paragraph. If the first paragraph is strong, the entire article will be a masterpiece." A wonderful beginning can often quickly win the favor and favor of readers. However, many students start their essays too slowly in coming up with the topic. They often write a lot of "correct nonsense" before the topic comes out. Among 800-word examination essays, this opening method is the most inefficient.

According to the different nature of the composition materials, new material compositions can be divided into narrative materials and speech materials. Essay questions vary in the quality of the material and the way they begin. Let’s talk about the essay questions for the 2017 second-year senior high school students in Su, Xichang, and Changzhen. Let’s talk about several ways to start narrative material essay questions.

We might as well review the title of the article first.

Based on the following materials, choose an angle, draft your own title, and write an article of no less than 800 words; there is no restriction on style, except poetry.

A little girl was riding a bicycle against the law and hit a Mercedes-Benz. The driver asked her to call her parents to deal with the problem. The girl was so nervous that she started crying, and passers-by came to watch. Some people felt that the driver was unkind and advised him not to embarrass the children. The driver said that compensation was a small matter, but the girl must know that she must be responsible for her actions.

Look at the following two openings, what do you think? "The Beginning"

A little girl was riding against the rules and hit a car. The driver asked her to call her parents to deal with the problem. When passers-by felt that the driver was unkind, the driver said: "This is to let her know that she must be responsible for her actions." From this story, we can see that we must be responsible for our actions every moment in our lives. .

("Be responsible for one's own actions")

"First two"

Responsibility is a word that is often talked about. Think about its importance. There is no need to say much about sex. If a society does not have any sense of responsibility, it must be chaotic, and its ending must be death. If we do not take responsibility, we will satisfy the rampant desires, and the civilization that mankind has finally established will fall into the endless abyss.

("Responsibility")

Basically copy the materials at the beginning. Such basic copying of materials as the beginning of the composition should be avoided as much as possible. First, there is no interesting point. You cannot start with a head start and leave a good first impression on the marking teacher. The second is that it directly exposes the mechanical and stiffness of the author's composition.

The first two are divorced from the material. The entire paragraph does not mention the material in the question, but that is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the author transformed this material essay question into an essay on the topic of "responsibility". The title of the original essay does have the connotation of "responsibility", but it refers to the "responsibility" of "taking responsibility for one's own actions", rather than a general "responsibility". This writing method of self-righteously extracting keywords from the material composition questions and then abandoning the material has the danger of going off topic and missing the target.

What kind of beginning is an ideal way to begin? Let’s take a look at the beginnings of the following.

"The First Three"

"Good-hearted" passers-by are like grandparents at home, bringing warmth to the grandchildren when they are helpless. But is this kind of "warmth" really conducive to the growth of children and the development of society? Today, when we are calling for humanity, how should we resolve the contradiction between emotion and reason?

("How to integrate emotion and reason?")

This way of opening is to intercept the material. There are three objects involved in the raw material, and this article will only focus on the "passers-by" among them at the beginning. It avoids general discussions and has a strong focus, which can give you a head start. Of course, when intercepting materials, we must also prevent "catching the small and throwing the big". Ignoring the integrity of the material and only writing about the details of the material may lead to deviations from the topic.

"The First Four"

The little girl was riding a bicycle in the wrong direction and scratched a Mercedes-Benz, and the bad guys surrounded her. They heard the girl's cries and saw the Mercedes driver's admonishment. They made judgments and thought the driver was unreasonable. They obeyed their perceptual cognition and defended the girl's injustice, but ignored the girl's violation of regulations.

In this accident, the little girl was judged as "vulnerable" by the group because her age, body shape, or vehicle were in sharp contrast to the "strong" Mercedes driver on the other side. , so this perception of strength and weakness affects the judgment of things. ...

("Reflections on the Crowd")

This opening method is to control the material. Like the first three chapters, they are all written from the perspective of a "passerby". The difference is that the first four pairs of materials are used in adaptations. This adaptation contains an emotional tendency and helps to prepare for the discussion below. But we must also prevent adaptations that violate the intention of the proposer.

"The First Five"

The tragedy of life is often that he has already rationalized the unreasonable reality with his strong logic, wisdom and numbness.

The little girl was riding in the wrong direction and hit a Mercedes-Benz. The driver reasonably asked her parents to deal with the problem, but everyone accused the driver of being inhumane, embarrassing the child, and putting emotions above the rules. Such a ridiculous phenomenon is really sad.

("Don't Fall into the Quagmire of Emotions" 56)

"The First Six"

Dharma is like a bank, and love is like flowing water. If there is no water, no grass will grow on the shore; if there is no shore, the water will flood and cause disasters. Treating people with the law and nourishing them with love is called a harmonious society.

The girl violated the rules and scratched the car. Passers-by thought the matter was trivial, but they could not forgive her and left it alone. However, the driver thought that a small matter was a big one, and he must be held responsible for the violation, and his parents must be invited to deal with the matter. I think this incident reflects a major contradiction in the transformation period of Chinese society: the conflict between legal principles and ethics.

("Law and Reason")

"The First Seven"

A human tragedy in which the tiger's mouth failed to escape almost boiled public opinion during the Spring Festival . This tragedy caused by fare evasion, sacrificing one's life, is a warning to all living beings: take responsibility for your own actions.

The driver’s pursuit of responsibility may seem cold-blooded, but in fact it is a sign of deep love for the little girl. No matter how big or small the matter is, it can be put aside, but the sense of responsibility cannot be ignored.

("Call for Responsibility")

These three beginnings all use the method of "internalizing the material". Although the first paragraph does not directly quote the material, the author has already thoroughly understood the connotation of the material. After accurately grasping the essence of the material, he either goes straight to the point or quotes other examples, and then refers back to the material in the second paragraph, which reflects a high level of writing wit.

The above five beginnings from beginning three to beginning seven are all ideal ways to start. But they have the same premise, which is to understand the topic materials accurately and thoroughly, "stick to the big ones and avoid the small ones", and grasp the main contradictions of the materials to work hard. Under the premise of accurately grasping the meaning of the question, as for the way you choose to start, you can combine it with your own writing style, but try to make the beginning "abrupt and lofty, like a strong wind and waves, with overwhelming momentum."