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I have chosen Romance as my genre for my connections report. I will be linking the three texts, Pride and prejudice written by Jane Austen, P.s I love you by Cecelia Ahern, The notebook by Nicholas sparks and my one chosen visual text, Titanic directed by James Cameron. Romance books usually follow similar routines to fit within the romance genre. The plot, character, and happy endings will be the three connections I will discuss. I will link them to form my final analysis of the connections between romance genre texts.

My first connection, that love conquers all, is shown, though my visual text in the film Titanic. We watch as Jack and Rose are forced to hide their love and true feelings from each other when they are faced with obstacles …show more content…

My first text, The Notebook, has a happy ending for the couple in love in the book and for the readers as well. Allie and Noah overcome many different obstacles thrown at them, however, they find their peace with each other and stay together in love at the end of the book. Allie is forced to choose between another man and Noah, she follows her heart and chooses her true love, Noah. Nicholas Sparks has written this novel in a way which allows for the readers to fall in love with Noah’s character when he is forced to leave Allie. We feel sad and sympathise with him. When the end of the book comes and we read over Allies moment to decide, we almost feel the pressure Allie does in the hope that she chooses Noah. The happy ending in this novel then becomes a happy ending for the character and the reader. My second text, Pride and Prejudice also subverts to the romance genre as Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet fall in love with each other and get married by the end of the novel. Titanic also links closely to my connection as Jack and Rose are together in love, however, Jack dies in the Titanic incident leaving Rose on her own to live her life without him. As we listen to Rose tell her story of Jack's death, we see the very end of the film in Rose’s mind, where she is back on the Titanic and sees Jack. She is reunited with him once and for all in her dreams. All of these romance texts and films end with the …show more content…

The river was still as I walked across the bank and neared the house. I edged closer to the front door with each step I took. I had known that I was forbidden to see Hamlet, but that hadn’t stopped me from visiting him in the late hours of the night. I did worry about him sometimes, I wondered if he was lonely or sad, I wondered if he wanted to see me, but he knew he couldn’t because if my father saw him. Oh, the consequences would be grave. I opened the front door with both of my hands to ensure I made as little noise as I could. The housed looked the same as it always had. Small and cluttered though there was only a little bit of dust here and there. Hamlet had lived there all his life, he was born in the bedroom left of the kitchen and had learnt to crawl, walk and run in the hallways of that house. I stepped past the door, closing it behind me, and walked towards the other end of the living room. I remembered playing ‘tag’ around his mother's sofa, we would stand on both sides of it and watch each other trying to anticipate one another's movements. His eyes were a deep blue that almost looked like the water furthest depths of the ocean and when he smiled, his teeth shone like the richest pearls hidden inside a sea clam. I walked down the familiar hallways with light footsteps when something pressed against my shoulder. It did frighten me a little and had made me imagine if my father had caught

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