Point of View and the Emotional Arc of Stories: A Handbook for Writers and Storytellers - Softcover

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"A strong beginning sets our expectations for all that follows. In traditional stories, the invitation to adventure and what is at stake is often very clear. It can be as simple as take this basket to your Grandmother or Helen running off with Paris and her husband calling on Odysseus to join the siege of Troy to win her back. That one is the start of two great stories – The Iliad, in which Odysseus is a secondary character but the man who makes the tragic end of the Trojan war possible and The Odyssey in which his striving to return home is the entire story. As we will see in greater detail in the following chapters, one of the functions of a strong beginning is to establish the point of view and in the best of narratives, the emotional arc of the story from the first few words."