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    To Kill a Mockingbird Essay To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a Bildungsroman novel. The prevalent theme presented throughout the novel is the maturation of the characters. The theme is mostly reflected in the novel’s younger characters, such as Scout Finch. Scout is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. Viewing the novel’s plot through Scout’s point of view allows for a more in-depth analysis of her learning and understanding of the surrounding world. Since Scout is only a child, she is

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    “The Outsiders” movie and novel are both great. After finishing both I found out they are very similar , but they also have some differences. The movie and novel both share similarities that are very alike. For example , both have the same characters , the church burns down , and the greasers and Socs both hate each other. They might have these major similarities ,but they have a lot of very minor differences. In “The Outsiders” there are a lot of similarities . For example , the

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    the true significance of a story in his novel The Things They Carried. He uses the scene of a real war with fictional additions to convey the message of the brutality of war, emphasizing the idea of the truth of the story being irrelevant. Similarly, in J. D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden utilizes a stream of lies without impacting the ideas of suicide and growing up found in the book. The story conveyed to the audiences of these novels is of greater gravity than the importance

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    The marvelous novel An Abundance Of Katherines is written by John Green who is known as the #1 New York best-selling author of The Fault In Our Stars. The protagonist of the novel is Colin Singleton, a guy that dated 19 women named Katherine and eventually had to end his relationships with all of them. Colin is from Windy City however the home or origin is not revealed within the novel. Colin is described as a skinny young adult with green eyes, a jewfro, sensitive skin, and glasses. Despite Colin’s

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    subjects, the first thought usually isn’t in the form of a graphic novel. Most people would believe a graphic novel is something only a child would read or someone to the same educational equivalent. Due to their engaging stories and appealing visuals though, graphic novels are idea for visual learners, inexperienced or unenthused readers, and just about anyone else who may not find traditional print books enticing. Graphic novels tend to show a relationship between the images and the text that makes

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    Gothic genre in the late 18th century was founded by Horace Walpole’s. He published The Castle of Otranto, in 1764, and has been commonly recognized as the first Gothic novel. In this case, the term Gothic referred to the novel’s medieval setting in a castle in Italy, and many of the Gothic novels that followed would similarly be set in castles from the distant past, often in European countries still dominated (from an English point of view) by the Catholic Church (www.saylor.org). As the genre advanced

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    Novel: ‘Atonement’ by Ian McEwan Social structures, upper class façades and the meaning of truth are just some of the themes that Ian McEwan reveals in his book, ‘Atonement,’ through the various interrelationships of his characters. The characters and how they relate to each other help us as readers come to a better understanding of our own lives as through the novel we are forced into the tumultuous lives of the wealthy, naive and deceitful. Although this may seem far extreme compared to our

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    Novel Summary - “The Outsiders” The novel “The Outsiders”, follows the life of Ponyboy Curtis over a two-week period. Ponyboy is a 14-year-old boy with a taste for adventure, but struggles to live out his childhood in the dangerous environment that is his society. Ponyboy has two brothers; Darrel “Darry” Curtis, who is 20 and Sodapop Curtis who is 16. The three brothers are orphaned after their parents passed in a car accident but Darrel has taken over a role as their legal guardian--- so long

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    com/SB1000142412788b3242160045 78481090168651704.Web.8Nov.2013). When a novel has many characters, it is important to differentiate each character with their own different characteristics. The realistic characters like have-nots are created then there is a need to make them appear from commonplace. The writer should exhibit a consistency in portraying the characters like the have-nots. There should be steadiness of manners and behaviour of the have-not characters throughout the novel which is maintain by Steinbeck. There must

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    attitude of the society in which it fixes certain taboo or derogatory identity to women. Manju Kapur shone into fame, receiving the Commonwealth prize with her debut novel, ‘Difficult Daughters’. The title of the novel attracted the attention of many research scholars. Why did Manju Kapur give the title ‘Difficult Daughters’ to her first novel? and why not ‘Audacious Daughters’? Daughters who are not submissive to the patriarchal norms are termed as ‘difficult’ daughters by the society. This attitude

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