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Analysis Of The Wicked And The Just

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The book written by J. Anderson Coats called “The Wicked and the Just,” is about a girl named Cecily who moves to Caernarvon with her father, leaving her relatives and friends. They moved to a manor there and her father received a job to prevent any conflict that the Welshmen causes. On the other hand, another girl named Gwenhwfar is a Welsh who becomes Cecily’s maid instead of the mistress of the manor that Cecily moved into. There are many ways to share the point of view of characters like in first-person and third-person. In this case, the story was written by the author in a dual narrative of both girls, but mainly narrative from Cecily. Since she wrote it in dual narrative, there must be a purpose to it.
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Gwladys and Cadwollon of Llanrug were good as dead, accosted at the city gate with the baby they’d been wringing their hands over. The baby they’d been tending with the last of their milk and borrowed oatbread.” Though they both had evidence to prove their innocence. From Cecily’s aspect, Nessy hadn’t been hurt but beside that she had no other evidence to prove their innocence. Compared to Gwenhwfar’s angle, she has reasons to prove their innocence like them giving some oatbread and the last of milk, tending to her, and returning her with no harm done.
The last purpose of the dual narrative was the style can be very effective for the readers. The technique helps reader get a more understanding of what’s going on and reveals thoughts about the characters to help show what mood, character traits, and more elements. On page 44 on the top, it says, “I grin outright. I can do better work with my feet in the dark. “I spent all winter on it,” Emmaline says proudly.” By this textual evidence, Cecily is unappreciative because spending all winter on it is pretty impressive to do and Emmaline did do her best. Another example is on page 176, it states, “Gruffydd brings some bread. Gnarly. Half moldy. He won’t say where it came from. Have learned not to ask.” The mood set here is gloomy and depressing because they are so poor that they had to eat anything they could

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