In the opening three chapters of the novel ‘Enduring Love’ by Ian McEwan, McEwan manages to hook the reader straight into the story, which makes the reader want to read on further into the novel. McEwan does this in several ways and I will begin to tell you about them firstly with the first chapter, also through the ways he talks about some things through the use of scientific language.
At the start of the first chapter we as the readers are firstly introduced to Mark (Joe Rose) who is telling us the story and we are also introduced to his girlfriend ‘Clarissa’. Soon after being introduced to Mark and Clarissa, we are then introduced to four other men who are running along side of him when he is running towards what he called a ‘catastrophe’. They were all farm labourers who were repairing a fence along the field’s southern edge where it skirts the road. These characters were introduced at this running point because all these men (mark etc…) were all running towards the man who was shouting for help. Near enough at the same point we are introduced to another man who was also on his way to help, his name was ‘John Logan’, he was a motorist. Half way through the first chapter we here from Clarissa about a famous poet called ‘John Keats’ who she has followed and researched his work for quite some time. Nearly throughout the whole of chapter 1 we know the guy shouting for help as ‘the pilot’ of the balloon, then finally we are introduced to him as the farther of Harry Gadd who is the little boy trapped inside the basket of the balloon, and then we learn his name to be James Gadd.
