What is a proluge?

Answer 1

It's like an introduction. I'm working on a book, and I have one. It basically describes what happened that led up to Chapter 1. In the bookWarriors New Prophecy: Midnight the author describes the scene in StarClan. That scene tells the reader why some things will happen in the next chapters. You don't need a prologue, but most books do.

Another form of a prologue is like explaining what the whole book will be about. In an informative novel called Witch-Hunt, the prologue basically gives the book a push. It explains the Martha Carrier and other characters that might appear more than once in the book. It simply isn't the beginning of the book.