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Amazing Grace
Roosevelt College Cubao
Highschool Department

Analysis of the Novel

Entitled:
Amazing Grace
By:
Tara FT Sering

(Requirement for English)

Moderator: Sir Jayson Seel Maravilla

Critic: Katrina Tan
(Section Molave second year student)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A. Analysis:
I. Background of the novel------------------------------------------------------
II. Author’s Background----------------------------------------------------------
III. Synopsis--------------------------------------------------------------------------
IV. Description of the main characters--------------------------------------
IV. Characterization--------------------------------------------------------------- (2 characters)
V. Plot
a. Exposition------------------------------------------------------------------------
b. Rising Action--------------------------------------------------------------------
c. Climax-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
d. Falling Action-------------------------------------------------------------------
e. Denouement-------------------------------------------------------------------

VI. Culture Presented-----------------------------------------------------------
VII. Values Shown---------------------------------------------------------------
VIII. Comments------------------------------------------------------------------
IX. Recommendation-----------------------------------------------------------
X. Acknowledgements---------------------------------------------------------

I. Backround of the novel:

Amazing Grace is the story of Grace Chua, a 26-year-old Filipina-Chinese single woman who has been egged on by her friends and family to find a man and settle down before her biological clock stops ticking. Grace realizes that, and she allows herself to be set up for blind dates. However, none of the guys were deemed worthy, until guy #7, her Valentine’s Day date, Mike. She and Mike clicked,

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