TRJ#1---Writer’s Craft: Foreshadowing
There is a prologue in this book which was a very interesting part. The prologue had a story of Julia disguising as Princess Carina in the ball and meeting Markus. At first, I didn’t know what Julia, the narrator, was talking about. However, when I started the main story and read more, it was easier to understand and in which way the story was going. Therefore, I could know briefly that Julia will like Markus later in the book by reading the prologue. Even if this is only a guess until I read the book to the end and see what it is like, it still had my interests and I wanted to keep reading it.
The prologue foreshadowed the story of this book, and the impression was good to me. I think this is a part of writer’s strategy to lead in the reader’s interest and to finish the story. It is an author’s job to pull out the reader’s interest and curiosity, to keep them reading and enjoying his/her book. I think that this author accomplished it with the foreshadowing. When writing a story, it is important to keep it to success, and I think it is most likely to succeed an author’s goal to lead in the interest by using the prologue efficiently to include the part of the story that is interesting and the reader can anticipate the story.
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I like the comment when you said, "when writing a story, it is important to keep it to success, and i think it is most likely to succeed an author's goal in lead in the interest by using the prologue efficiently to include the part of the story that is interesting and the reader can anticipate the story." I always like books with fast beginnings that hook you up from the start. Some of the books that I have read had very slow start, an good example would be Fhrenheit 451. I agreed with you on the most part, but I prefer books that are mysterious in the beginning, so that I can be qurious until the end. My conclusion is that when the book reveals itself too fast, there is no point of reading it. I think that is why I love Agatha Christi books so much, because she builds up the intensity along the book. I hope that the foreshadowing helped you to decide weather the ending was going to be the typical 'happily ever after' or something different from what you expected.
That sometimes happens to me like at first when you read the prologue your thinking what are they saying and later you would say oh i get it when your reading the story lol. I like to predict what is going happen but later if I predict everything correctly, I think the story gets to obvious which makes me think that the book is boring.
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