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    simple illustrations that help to tell the story along with a biography of the author make it a potentially useful transition from historical picture books to George MacDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin. Much like the young princess’s journey, the little prince’s journey glorifies a theme of child-like faith and innocence to point out the nature of different perspectives. Through the relationships between powerful symbolisms and themes throughout the story, Richard Howard’s translation of The Little

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    literary or artistic genre magical realism is the adding of surreal elements within a story in an attempt to create a realistic narrative without distracting the narrative flow. There are several characteristics having to do with the intertwining of elements in which unexplainable events are seen to be an everyday event, allowing the reader to get a better understanding of the author's intention. In the following stories, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,”

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    communicate with audiences effectively. It entails a story of a family that loves in Ayemenem, a town in Kerala India. This paper seeks to offer a detailed analysis of the above story in term of themes, styles, characters, and other elements that are featured by the authors. Some of the significant characters that are featured in the story include Sophie, Rahel, Ammu, and Cochin among other individuals (Arundhati, 15). The opening of the story begins with the return of Rahel to Ayemenem. Other significant

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    Dialogue in a story can really make you fully understand the characters and everything else about the story differently in a better way. The story “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and the book Canyons by Gary Paulsen use dialogue in their stories. Walter Dean Myers uses dialogue in his story to make you understand the characters a little bit more and Gary Paulsen uses dialogue to make you understand the tone of the story a little bit better. Walter Dean Myers uses dialogue to make

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    Two Kinds of Parents Amy Tan in her short story titled “Two Kinds” uses the character Jing-Mei and her mother’s oppressive views, to outline a story about her own personal struggle We are exposed to Mei’s struggle to pursue her own path rather than her mother’s passion for piano, ballet dancing, Ripley’s believe it or Not remarkable children, and being a modern-day Disney channel movie star. Amy Tan through imagery, character developments, and symbolism portray the true struggle of living up to

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    In life, we don’t think about the importance of conversing. But without it, think about how hard it would be to communicate to each other. In the story Trapped by Michael Northrop, the author uses dialogue to set up the problem. Without the characters communicating to each other, really there would be no story. I mean, yes a story doesn’t have to have dialogue, but it won’t keep moving. We won’t hear from other characters at all. And for setting up the problem in Trapped the characters communicate

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    Cold Mountain The book, Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier is a story of tragedy and the overcoming of adversity set during the American Civil War. W.P. Inman is a confederate soldier, who like many confederate soldiers is reconsidering the “cause” and whether or not his sacrifice was warranted. We learn that when he ventures away from Cold Mountain, his home in North Carolina, for the first time he see the persecution of blacks in way he had not before. This compounded with the longing for

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    William Golding, symbols are used to highlight the impactful nature of Ralph, the main protagonist. Ralph is brought to so much power being credited to finding the conch and rising but also falling in power along side it. The supporting character of story, Piggy, helps us show how the conch is a double edged sword. It gives Ralph the ability to become leader and create a civilization but also helps Jack, the antagonist, resist the conch and help build his own empire on the island which tears everyone

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    Relationships with stories can also be just as important. As they can show us that, although each person has a different story to tell, we all live in the same society. In Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” and George Saunder’s “Puppy”, the reader is given a glimpse into the lives of two people. Marie and Callie in “Puppy” and Twyla and Roberta in “Recitatif”. Both stories show similarities and differences between the two sets of characters in each story. George Saunder’s “Puppy” is a story about two women;

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    possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all woman” -Maya Angelou. A story that shows a similar content is titled, “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros. It is a story about a girl with six brothers yet tells herself that the is an only daughter. Cisneros has had hardships of her own when she was growing up with her family because she thought that she wasn’t being recognized by her father as much. Corresponding with the story, “N.O” is a song that’s been written, preformed, and sung by BTS. Their

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