Once

'Once I was living in an orphanage in the mountains and I shouldn't have been and I almost caused a riot' 

This extract is taken from the book 'Once' who's author is Morris Glietzman. I come across this book in my year 8 class at school. Once is a book that has taken me from being ignorant towards literature, too a girl who now enjoys a cheeky book from time to time. 

I have chosen this line because I found it very intriguing as it aroused my curiosity and interest to read on. The line has been written with no comma's and many 'and' which automatically makes me assume it is being said by a very poor alliterated child. To back up my theory of the child I also notice that he/she is very unsure of why they are at the orphanage, as they believe they shouldn't be. 

This then led me to think about why the writer has included the mountains. I began too question how significant the mountains are? Could it be that the Orphanage is in the middle of nowhere, very isolated, in the mountains? And also, why is the child there?

Overall, this very first opening line puzzled me which is why I was very eager to read on and chose it as my a good piece of writing to analyse.

This was the first main book I have ever read front to back, and I highly recommend. It will keep you on your toes!!

Once is a 2005 children's novel by Morris Gleitzman. It is about a Jewish boy named Felix, who lived in Poland. Although Once is a work of fiction, Gleitzman was inspired by the story of Janusz Korczak, the events of World War II, and Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. The sequel to the book is called Then.