Terrific use of adverbial phrases within reporting clauses.

“Come on you worthless thing. Take me home please,” he begged, flipping through the rough pages.

Good opening to a story and careful choice of words. 

A boy named Sam lived near a nice beautiful beach. He was young, he had ginger hair. One day he said to his mum, “Can I go to the shop?” His mum said, “Yes you can, but be quick.” So he left his house and slowly walked on the pavement.

Good opening to a story and careful choice of words.

Dring dring. Sam suddenly awoke. Sam is 11 years old, he has dark blue eyes, dark brown hair and is 5 feet tall.