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Comparing Nothing But The Truth And Among The Hidden

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The writing style of an author has each of its own unique taste, but in some situations you can draw some similarities and dissimilarities between two author’s writing style. Among the Hidden is about how the main character, Luke, struggles with being an illegal child, and Nothing but the Truth is how Philip Malloy gets ostracized for expressing his patriotism. When classifying all of the evidence, one can compare and contrast the writing style of Nothing But the Truth by Avi Hadi and Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix because of the format of the novels, a purposeful message, and manipulation of language. First and foremost, Among the Hidden and Nothing but the Truth have structures that have similarities and differences. A similarity that can be found between Nothing but the Truth and Among the Hidden is that the main character is thinking to himself. Phillip was thinking about how Coach …show more content…

To start off, some similarities found between the messages of the books is that they are real world problems that are happening currently. Margaret’s message was that the world had fallen into a dystopian state, and Avi’s message was that you should not have your patriotism restricted. “Government wanted it. You can’t tell the Government no”” (Haddix 2). Most countries are a dystopia because of their government, and The Broncos’ Brandon Marshall was kneeling during the national anthem of a football game. In addition, Avi and Margaret excellently execute hinting at to message. Some differences about the message in Nothing but the Truth and Among the Hidden is that Margaret hints to the message in third person, while Avi hints to the message in first person. The secret messages that were hidden in Among the Hidden and Nothing but the Truth were very similar and

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