Question

In The Inheritors, how does Madeline react to Emil’s advice that she apologize to her uncle and ask him for help ?

She agrees to speak to her uncle soon.
She admits that she despises her uncle.
She implies that he is not really her uncle.
She refuses to approach her uncle in any way.

Answer 1

When Emil suggest that she apologizes to her uncle and receive help from him She refuses immediatly to approach her uncle in any way. She implies that in no way she wants to be in danger because of that decision

Answer 2

Sir William Gerald Golding was born on 19 September 1911 and died on 19 June 1993. He was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature and was awarded the Booker Prize for fiction in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what later became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.

Golding was given the tittle of knight in 1988. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The novel we need to analyze here is The Inheritors.

The Inheritors is a story of prehistoric fiction. It was published in 1955, by the British author William Golding, best known for Lord of the Flies. It concerns the extinction of one of the last remaining tribes of Neanderthals at the hands of the more sophisticated Homo sapiens.

The reaction of Madeline to Emil's advice that she should apologize to her uncle and ask him for advice suggests that:

She implies that he is not really her uncle.