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How Does Kadare Use Characterization In Broken April

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In the novel Broken April, Kadare uses the technique of personification to portray Gjorg’s characterization as uneasy. Gjorg in the opening of the novel is feeling uneasy about the idea of having to kill someone but has to, due to the Kanun tradition that is part of his culture. In the opening of the chapter, Gjorg is in the cold awaiting his brothers killer, whom will soon be killed by Gjorg. Passing time by, Gjorg begins to notice his surrounding thoroughly. “When in his mind he had called a fateful day was no more than those patches of snow and those wild pomegranates that seem to have been waiting since Midday to see what he would do. He thought, soon night will fall and it will be too dark to shoot”. The ‘snow patches’ and ‘wild pomegranates’

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