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Why Chapter One of the Inheritors provides an excellent opening to the novel.
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The Inheritors - Chapter One Write an essay explaining why the first chapter of a novel provides an excellent opening and with some reference to the rest of the book show how a character develops and relates back to the start. In 1955, William Golding, author of 'Lord of the Flies' wrote a novel out of the ordinary. 'The Inheritors' was a phenomenon, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Golding challenged himself to write a book set fifty thousand years ago and to do so he had to produce a society of Neanderthals and make it believable. A majority of the novel is told from the perspective of Lok, who finds himself having to develop from the least intelligent character to one whose ideas are somewhat depended on in order to protect his people from the 'fall' of mankind. In this essay I am going to explain why this is an excellent...
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