Young adult readers often overlook poetry and view it as dated and monotonous. Ellen Hopkins is a contemporary novelist who has found a way to intrigue the minds of young adults using poetry in her numerous verse novels. Hopkins often uses intense themes such as drug ... with either too much emotion or not enough understanding, ultimately creating a beautiful piece of literature which would bring even the most callous reader to tears. Through her many literary techniques, Ellen Hopkins has created a new genre of writing. The ability to incorporate poetry to young adult novels while bringing ...

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... the other characters as we focus on only one person's interpretations of events. This bias can be avoided using a third person narrator, who in Chapter Nine is omniscient of both Joe and Clarissa's thoughts: "She is already wondering if she has gone too far." If this extract was written ... rather than Joe, for having such a stressful day. McEwan describes first person narrative as looking "over the shoulder" into the current scene. In this chapter we seem to take a step back and can therefore look at Joe's character from a different perspective. Joe comes across far more persistent than ...

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... Tennyson connotes that what God intends is unknown. Fowles appropriates this quote and manipulates it to express that "The Author is Dead" and that his characters have absolute free will. Chapter 13 commences "I do not know," and the narrator proceeds to discuss the difficulty of writing a story in which the characters behave independently and disobey his intentions. This game-playing that ... reality evident in a traditional conservative novel. This alludes to the epigraph, both claiming that the intentions of the composer are unknown due to his fallibility in controlling his character...

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... Tennyson connotes that what God intends is unknown. Fowles appropriates this quote and manipulates it to express that "The Author is Dead" and that his characters have absolute free will. Chapter 13 commences "I do not know," and the narrator proceeds to discuss the difficulty of writing a story in which the characters behave independently and disobey his intentions. This game-playing that ... reality evident in a traditional conservative novel. This alludes to the epigraph, both claiming that the intentions of the composer are unknown due to his fallibility in controlling his character...

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... most people recognise and that have contributed significantly to the world history: Hitler is occasionally mentioned, while Mussolini, The Duce' is prominently featured in chapter two: with Metaxas they serve to build the main historical context of the novel. On the other hand we have the fictional characters, created ... Greeks and Cephallonia. Through his writing, he illustrates the landscape, the sea and we are led into the stories of the Odyssey. In the chapter following, the view, mood and time shifts and the reader is presented to an important figure of Modern History: Mussolini, th...

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... with as much accuracy as possible. Joe pauses within his narrative to permit himself more detailed reflection on the events, for example at the start of chapter two; "Best to slow down. Let's give the half minute after John Logan's fall careful consideration." This need for accuracy appears to stem ... an objective outlook of events. Throughout the novel Joe suspends his own narration to allow the reader the advantage of a narrative from another character. The opening chapter concentrates on the perspectives of detached observers to the "balloon incident" as well as Joe's lengthy analyti...

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... the events unfold around her? Only at the very end of the novel are we given any definite indication of the timeframe the story. At the very beginning of the chapter entitled 'conclusion', Jane delivers what is perhaps the most famous line of the whole novel. "Reader, I married him," she says, pinning down for certain the time from which Jane is ... when placed in the context of Jane's description of past events, it gives the reader a sense that the events are happening now, as he is reading. At the beginning of chapter eleven, after Jane's departure from Lowood, she tells the reader "I...

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... any particular characters or representing their thoughts or motivations. In the intercalary chapters, Steinbeck often varies his style. In some chapters, like Chapter 3, the anonymous narrator uses symbolism to provide the readers with an idea about the migrant workers. In chapter 3, a turtle struggles to travel across a highway, being nearly squashed twice by passing motorists and flung off the road by a driver who ... that the Joads won't have it easy in the west. In the intercalary chapters, Steinbeck usually presents a misfortune, shared by the migrant workers, which the Joads exper...

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... the majority of the time he is, bluntly put, annoying. For instance he uses ridiculously over exaggerated language. An example of this is the fourth line of the very first chapter where Lockwood says 'A perfect misanthropist's Heaven - and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us'. Yet, although needless and blatant, it draws the reader as ... his use of words of Latin origin, e.g. prudential, laconic, auxiliary yet again to almost prove he is, intelligence wise, above other characters and even the reader. By the end of Chapter three, Lockwood's s...

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... Satan" which is a highly powerful image for a child like Catherine to use. Catherine is not the only person who draws parallels between Heathcliff and the figure of the devil. In chapter twelve, Nelly refers him to an "evil beast prowling" and "Waiting his time to spring and destroy." The language of the novel has a didactic purpose. It is an insight into ... property as "Beautiful, splendid place, carpeted with crimson and crimson coloured chairs and tables and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold." This is an informative description of the property. In chapter thirteen Isabella narra...

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... example, he characterizes Honeychurch's house placing it at Windy Corner (the name underlines the "northern spirit-), when Emerson's house is in Sunny Street (connected with the "Mediterranean spirit-). As writer, Foster is known and appreciated because of the accurate study of the characters in his novels; they are always vital and round, full of contraddictions and dubts. In "A Room with a View ... ...

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... put Christopher's disability in context with what he writes and the overall quality and events in his life. An interesting and distinctive point of the structure is the development of chapter length from short to long as the book progresses. I think this highlights his improved state of mind from the start to end, for instance Christopher forgives his father and passes ... ...

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... stories, the dead live again. This is comforting to O'Brien and in a way helps lighten a metaphorical weight on his conscience. I think that this is an interesting point because the first chapter of the novel was entirely dedicated to the physical burdens and metaphorical weights that soldiers carried as they trekked through Vietnam, and now the end of the story relates back ... ...

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... " of the baronet has prevailed over "recklessness" of the free artist), then that real choice that he makes for the benefit of unplanned, but independent future with happy Sarah. In chapter 44 Charles descended from the London train in Exeter, is going to Ernestine with a wedding gift. In 45-th he goes to the hotel where Sarah has stopped. The reckless ... ...

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... day. It can be observed in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man that James Joyce changes his narrative voice and style of writing throughout the book. In the first chapter, when Stephen is still very young at Conglowes College, the book is narrated in a stream of consciousness, without well structured paragraphs or a clear purpose to some statements. The sense of ... ...

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... something else, give it to me, okay?". The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. All of these forms of bullying will be recognised by the reader, and in some cases, both older and younger readers will be able to relate or identify to ... ...

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... something else, give it to me, okay?". The hierarchy also places Stanley at the bottom, thus a target to be bullied by everyone above him, for example Armpit's physical bullying in chapter five. All of these forms of bullying will be recognised by the reader, and in some cases, both older and younger readers will be able to relate or identify to ... ...

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... follows. So the section that describes Pecola's mother is started with an excerpt describing Dick and Jane's mother, and so on. The excerpts from "Dick and Jane" that head each "chapter" are typeset without any spaces or punctuation marks. The "Dick and Jane" snippets show just how prevalent and important the images of white perfection are in Pecola's life; Morrison's strange ... ...

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... to highlight many issues in his novel and uses the convention of structure. One scene against the next are juxtaposed and as a result, key points of comparison are distinguished. In chapter two and three, the storyline moves from the Buchanans refined dinner party to the revelry and glitter of Gatsby's festivities. By putting these contrasting situations side by side, the composer ... ...

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