owing story is probably about the punishments as the tone of the sentence is quite harsh, so it is not so hard to predict that. From the sentence we can branch out to other different possibilities of what the story is like, that the character is mad for being late, then the story might be about the reasons to why the clock is put back. But the possibilities are not as much as those from the sentence from the first story, “Why apes look like people”The last ofcourse will be “Full Stop” with the sentence, “My grandmother writes without commas or full stops”. It is quite difficult to determine what the story will be like later on, as I could not generate as much possibilities as the sentences from the top two stories. It is quite limited and the only conclusion to the language used is non-standard, but the story is full of religious phrases, especially in the grandmother’s letters. It does not give us a clue to the fact that the grandmother is very religious, and the relationship with the narrator and her mother is bad. Thus the degree of the clues to what the story will be like is not as high as the top two stories, “The Escape” and “Why apes look like people”. In conclusion, as I have mentioned above, to really determine the content of the story and its language through the first sentence has to really depend on the information given, the tone of the sentence, the structure of the sentence, the style and the language it is used in. The results of the degree of reflecting the content and the language of the three stories are placed in an order with the best possibilities of the stories, and the easiness to determine the elements of the stories, which is that the sentence “For a long time after the Lord created the world, the only creatures on it were the animals” is the most obvious and easy to interpret one while the sentence, “My grandmother writes witho...
