Henry Fielding's Tom Jones begins with the hero reaching adulthood and heading out into the world.
The story begins with the hero, Stefan Ratarac — the alter ego of Markovic — being told by Alain Dupré, a prominent French actor, to beat up a journalist.
The story begins with the hero, Stefan Ratarac the alter ego of Markovic being told by Alain Dupré, a prominent French actor, to beat up a journalist.
"Crusoe" begins with the hero of its title (played by Philip Winchester, with his romance-novel looks) already shipwrecked and confronting pirates for whom you wish that a UPS delivery of Crest whitening strips would simply plop down on the sand.
Inferno begins with the hero suffering from "head trauma", and Brown's head – a boggy hideout for the craziest superstitions of the so-called Dark Ages – seems to be similarly traumatised.
Littell, faced with some tough (and nearly all male) competition, from the likes of Philip Roth, John Banville and Amos Oz, gutted out a victory with a steamy — and largely unquotable — passage that begins with the hero putting his lover in a guillotine-like contraption and ends with the sensation of his own head being "emptied like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg".
As it turns out, it's just the first of many; beginning with the Hero, HTC is moving away from requiring users to pump audio through their modified miniUSB port.
The premise of the digital series, written by Ian Flynn and illustrated by Ben Bates, begins with the heroes largely in retirement in a suburb called the Red Circle.
The Russian Formalist Vladimir Propp divided folk tales into thirty-one narrative components, arguing that all stories — from "Baba Yaga" to "Sleeping Beauty" — begin with the introduction of a hero and end with a reward.
By Jenna Krajeski January 2, 2009 The Russian Formalist Vladimir Propp divided folk tales into thirty-one narrative components, arguing that all stories — from "Baba Yaga" to "Sleeping Beauty" — begin with the introduction of a hero and end with a reward.
