late for work or for appointment. Then we can predict that punishments to whomever responsible for the act will be featured in the following paragraphs to give a degree of seriousness of the consequences with the clock being put back. This further leads us to the escape and the process in the story, thus it is quite easy to predict what the story is about by looking at the first sentence. The dialogue approach in the beginning sentence can explain that the story will be filled with dialogues, maybe lots of them, as the dialect being used is definitely outstanding and well-perform if used in dialogues and this ofcourse will bring out another element of the story, perhaps a humourous style of the author. This could ofcourse bring us to another assumption of the story. All the three sentences have each of their own uniqueness in bringing out the main element of the respective story, but to determine what the story is about following up is quite difficult by just looking at the first sentence, depending on the information, the style, the language and the structure of the sentence is being used in. To really compare and contrast the three sentences, I can say that the sentence “For a long time after the Lord created the world, the only creatures on it were the animals” from the story “Why apes look like people”, gives the most obvious and simple clue to the plot of the story, it is quite easy to determine the content of the story. Mainly because of the common fable-opening sentence as it gives us a hint to the animal characters, the language, the anthropomorphism being used, and the moral value behind it. Following up is the sentence, “Who put de clock back, eh!” from the story, “The Escape”. It is very obvious in the language, as it is a dialect. Then the way the story is built through the dialogues, as the dialect is best presented and more understandable if used in dialogues, then the foll...
