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    While reading Rebecca, a wonderful novel, many people can interpret different themes for this book. As I read I thought this literary work can have many themes. However, the one theme that stuck out to me the most is that those who pass away will always leave behind memories, however these memories can disrupt and hinder other people’s lives. After finishing the book and looking at gothic elements that go with this book, I am deep-rooted with the fact that secondary character with a disability will

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    bathroom graffiti in the novel? Provide and discuss examples (cite page numbers) to develop your ideas. Bathroom graffiti is used in this novel as a way for students to anonymously communicate their ideas and thoughts. This allows their thoughts and opinions to be passed on and shared with others who read it. It acts as a place where all students can freely express their thoughts without being judged. Specifically, for Melinda, the role of bathroom graffiti in the novel is for her to anonymously

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    Principles of Response to Life and Hardships Individuals have different ways in responding to hardships based on the principles they live by. In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky explores contrasting ways of response to adversity. In the novel, there are those who don’t commit crimes while facing the hardships of life, like Sonia, Lizaveta, and Mikolka. Those like Raskolnikov, however, try to change the elements of life that provide challenges by taking drastic measures to modify society and life:

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    All appearances of characters in novels have their different roles developed, even if they are minor. Mr. Quiring in the novel, a complicated kindness, is no exception to this convention. Although Mr. Quiring rarely appears in the novel, he plays a crucial role in making the readers understand more about the protagonist, Naomi. Mr. Quiring’s knowledge and behavior has an impact on the protagonist, Naomi. Mr. Quiring is described as an English teacher who always prepares carefully before his classes

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    Yossel: Novel Analysis

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    Graphic novels have been seen as a controversial topic. Are they literature or are they part of a separate category of art? Many authors have stepped out of the stereotypical superhero graphic novel box and into a new world of using graphic novels for autobiographies, fiction stories, and historical accounts. The graphic novel Yossel tells the story of a young Jewish boy named Yossel who grew up in Poland in the early 1940’s. He spends most of his days drawing superheroes and aspiring to become the

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    the imagination of the reader. Because of all these issues novels very rarely translate exactly how to book was written. Compromises must be made by the director to determine what he or she believes the novel was trying to portray. Last Exit to Brooklyn does an impressive job adapting the novel into film yet, even with the writer as a part of the creation process, the film does compromise which changes the experience from reading the novel to watching the film. Assuming the author and director were

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    writing a novel regarding events that have occurred in the past. Shiloh: A Novel, written by Shelby Foote, can use several different components related to fiction in order to help the reader be able to further comprehend what happened at the Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War without having to explain the actual events by using real historical references. There are several things that can be depicted in history by using a work of fiction as opposed to non-fiction. In the novel where it

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    “We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.”-Colonel Stonehill (p.35). True Grit is a novel by Charles Portis, where we see that a young Mattie Ross goes on a manhunt with the help of one of the meanest U.S. Marshalls Rooster Cogburn, to avenge her father’s blood. The definition of “grit” is firmness of character; indomitable spirit, but in the novel you will find yourself thinking that grit can mean different things. As for me true grit is having a tough side and determination, like how the character

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    AThe Keys to a Great Novel A great novel needs to be truly captivating on all levels of the story, as well as, holding a great controversy among the readers. Great novels do not allow the readers to be uninspired to read, but they do not have all of the pieces laid out in front of the reader’s eyes. The controversy consists between the readers because of the differing opinions of the human beings who read the novels. Great novels are created on the basis of how an author develops the characters

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    Aligarh (British India) now in Uttar Pradesh state , India .and died on august 21,2007, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. She was an Indian writer ,editor,scholar,and translator who helped the novel become a serious genre of hitherto poetry –oriented Urdu literature. Her masterwork ,aag ka darya (1959;river of fire),a novel first published in Urdu in 1959,from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century bc to post partition of India .popularly known as “Ainee Apa” among her friends and admirers

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