Write a short scene with a beginning, middle, and end. Your scene should be at least two typed, double-spaced pages.
• To begin, choose a setting for your scene. It is fine for the setting to be familiar to
your readers - maybe a café, classroom, supermarket, or living room.
• Keep in mind that a flashback helps reveal why a character acts the way he or
she does, illuminating tensions between that character and others.
• Provide a bridge between what is happening in the present and what happened in
the past. Your transition from the present to the past might be triggered by a
sensory detail, such as a scent ("A whiff of lemon cake brought Kit back to her
17th birthday ..."), a song lyric, or a childhood setting.
• Remember, pacing is vital. The flashback should deepen or illuminate the main
action of the story so that the reader can momentarily let go of the forward
movement of the narrative in exchange for a deeper understanding of the story,

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "