Paper 2 sample response #7: 'Atonement' and 'In Cold Blood'
Compare how two writers you have studied choose to begin their works, and the ways in which each beginning connects to the work as a whole. This question follows the prompt of a well-known quotation from Graham Greene's The End of the Affair: "A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead." This is a strong essay and a good...