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    Rabbit Remembered, a sequel to the rabbit series, was published in the year 2001. It is a novella and was first published in Licks of Love – a collection of short stories. This novella is published ten years after Harry’s death in Rabbit at Rest. In Rabbit Remembered, Janice, Harry’s wife, works as a real estate agent and has married Ronnie Harrison, who was Thelma’s Husband. Thelma was actually Harry’s illicit lover and she died of kidney failure and cancer in Rabbit at Rest. Harry’s son Nelson

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    Rabbit, Run

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    Rabbit, Run Rabbit, Run was published in 1960 by American author John Updike. He wrote three more Rabbit novels, one at the end of the '60s, '70s, and '80s. He says these novels became “a running report on the state of my hero and his nation.” He won the Pulitzer Prize for the “final” two books. series continued after Rabbit’s death in Updike’s 2001 novella, Rabbit Remembered. In 2006, The Rabbit series was voted number four on The New York Times list of “the best work of American fiction of the

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    The Life and Writings of John Updike Essay

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    John Updike is an amazing writer during his time. He wrote many short stories and poems. He is an American and is a literacy critic. He was widely praised as America's "last true man of letters", with a huge and far-reaching power on many writers. It is said that “John Updike has been called the most gifted writer of his generation; ‘Updike writes with the tongue of angels, and sees with the eye of a bird’” (Hamilton). Updike was well-recognized for his careful craftsmanship, and his unique prose

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    Christian Suppositions

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    The Great commission is to reach with world with the Gospel. The Christian understands the world through suppositions; God exists, the truth exists, a man can know and understand truth (Towns 2008, 6). What we often forget is that much of society does not hold these suppositions, at least they often do not know they hold these suppositions. If we understand the way in which they think we can more ably show them Christ. Christians are separate from the world, but human none-the-less, and as such

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    thing of something personal that gives us a sense of reality. Through John Updike’s Rabbit Run, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Margaret Atwood’s Happy Endings, James Joyce’s Araby, Patrick White’s The Vivesector, and Jorge Luis Borges’ Pierre Menard, Author of the ‘Quixote’ readers come to find a sense of reality within the characters portrayed through these works. In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, we see Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom constantly running from his problems throughout the novel. The story begins

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    Annie Prolux is an author of eight books. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut on August 22, 1935. She is the oldest of fives sisters. She graduated high school in Portland, Maine and attended Colby College. She then attended the University of Vermont and received her bachelor’s degree in History. In 1973 she attended Sir George Williams University of Montreal, where she graduated with a master’s degree in History. In 1983 and 1987 Proulx landed two stories in The Best American Short Stories. She

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    Brief Survey of American Literature 1. Beginnings to 1700 Great mixing of peoples from the whole Atlantic basin Bloody conflicts between Native Americans (or American Indians) and European explorers and settlers who had both religious and territorial aspirations - Native American oral literature / oral tradition - European explorers’ letters, diaries, reports, etc., such as Christopher Columbus’s letters about his voyage to the “New world”. - Anglo (New England) settlers’ books, sermons

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