Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
Anyway let's get right to it,
Everyone has a story. Some are long, while others are short. Sometimes the words get jumbled, mismatched, and ruined, thus creating utter confusion in the main character.
But after awhile, those words start changing. They start making sense and the character finds happiness. That happens in most stories; it's what makes the readers go "Awww. I'm happy for them." But you must remember it does not happen in all these stories. This...is not one of these stories.
Soon, he or she realizes that they wouldn't change a thing in their story. Their life.
Okay, so this is an interesting little technique that's being used here. We've got the main character clearly aware of the fact that they're in a story, or maybe the narrator just talking directly to us and letting us know that this is a story where nothing's going to change for the better. It makes for a unique start sure, but you know changes of the character and things like that are what keep a story going so to have a statement that basically says there will be no character development happening is a little worrying here.
Everyone has things that they regret, but that doesn't mean that they would change anything.
An example of this is Evan Peterson. He was an average man, alright...not so much.
Evan was a big kid. A kid at heart and would do anything to keep his childhood that was stolen from him. His childhood which disappeared at age six. The childhood he didn't have.
He was an outcast, a crazy man, a falsely accused man, yet he was one of the sweetest men in the world. No one saw that. All they saw was how he acted. What he wore. What he did. And they weren't the most normal things.
Hmm, so I'm gonna assume that maybe this is the main character that we're just being introduced to here. He certainly seems like he'd be a pretty interesting character to read about. That seems to be quite a distinct personality there and the thing he seemed to have gone through in his life look quite interesting too.
Before August 22nd, 2010---the day he met her---he was just a man often called insane. A man that was looked at like a sick minded man. Just a man trying to make his way into the world. Just a man looking for his inspiration.
Just a man.
A lot of emphasis on "just a man". I'm gonna hazard a guess and say that it's probably an important theme you're looking to focus on here, and this mention of very specific date and such certainly creates a nice little mystery around what this whole thing may be referring to. Overall, I'd say this is a fairly effective prologue, there was only that dicey sounding start, but for the most part this does make you want to read and find out more about what's happening.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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