Heroes - Chapter One - An Introduction

You're doing 'Heroes' as your novel for the Literature exam? You lucky thing! Your teacher must really like you! This podcast is about the first chapter of the novel 'Heroes'.

Any start to a novel is the most important part - closely followed by the end in order of importance. At the start of 'Heroes', Robert Cormier sets up themes that will run all of the way through the novel. You need to be aware of them - and that's where this podcast comes in.

Key terms you might want to secure are: 'foregrounding' and 'motif'.