Playing With Matches
Setting Examples
The beginning of the movie.
—Roaring lion.
The end of the movie.
—“The stuff that dreams are made of.”
Never happen.
—Cold day in hell.
Always sexy.
—Hot tamale.
First sentence.
—“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.”
Last sentence:
—”He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.”
Cold book.
—The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.
Hot book.
—Fahrenheit 451.
