why are prologues used
Perhaps when you want to introduce your characters in a more leisurely fashion, and your reader's experience with 'meeting' them will be enhanced by some sort of foreshadowing of what is to come. Apart from these two reasons, a prologue can be used to introduce a certain character's viewpoint on one occasion only.The rest of the book may be told from just one other viewpoint, or from several different viewpoint characters that are in some way removed from the one you've used in the prologue.erhaps when you want to introduce your characters in a more leisurely fashion, and your reader's experience with 'meeting' them will be enhanced by some sort of foreshadowing of what is to come. Apart from these two reasons, a prologue can be used to introduce a certain character's viewpoint on one occasion only.