Literacy Narrative

I've already written the draft but here's the first paragraph:

Life, Death, and 1984

              I still remember when I first found it.

It was in the summer, about a year and a half ago, at the Governor’s Program for Gifted Children. I was in writing class and I had already finished my assignment, and the ennui was growing in me. Then this book caught my eye. It was on an old, oiled bookcase, next to Animal Farm and Republic, just quietly there, nothing signaling its significance. But reading has always been an avid passion of mine, and I pulled the book from the shelf, so I could see the cover. White, but slightly off shade, not easily named. It had a very large cold blue iris in its center, with a small black pupil. I red, the year “1984” ran through the iris, almost overshadowing the pupil.

I hope you like it.