ravendeath12
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I'm on the speech team at my high school and I'm in the category Extemporaneous reading, where basically, you perform a short story with an intro you wrote yourself. The story I'm working on writing an intro for is "The Father" (By Bjornstjerne Bjornson), a story about a father paying a priest to selfishly give his son everything the best (spiritually, like being baptized by himself, the nicest wedding ceremony, being the first one to be confirmed), until his son dies right before his wedding. At the end, the father donated a bunch of money to the priest and the priest told him that the passing of his son was a blessing in disguise since it made the father so selfless.
But my question is, do you think it is wise to use song lyrics as the attention-getter in the intro? I absolutely LOVE the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell and I think the lyrics "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got til it's gone" connect to the story pretty well, but I am doubting myself more and more because I'm really tired right now and I might just be looking in the wrong direction.
Please either tell me how you feel about an attention-getter like what I proposed, or if you are up to it, any good quotes/attention-getters that you think would work well for this story.
Thank you very much.
But my question is, do you think it is wise to use song lyrics as the attention-getter in the intro? I absolutely LOVE the song Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell and I think the lyrics "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got til it's gone" connect to the story pretty well, but I am doubting myself more and more because I'm really tired right now and I might just be looking in the wrong direction.
Please either tell me how you feel about an attention-getter like what I proposed, or if you are up to it, any good quotes/attention-getters that you think would work well for this story.
Thank you very much.