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Jane Godwin's Falling From Grace
Introduction:
“Falling From Grace” follows a young girl, named Grace, who get’s lost at Point Nepean. This book was written by Jane Godwin. It shows us to never form a hasty opinion about anything, since it will never turn up like anything, similar to reality and that doing so can bring about a considerable measure of unneeded drama. The characters in the book who did a great deal of this would be; Kip, the police, people in the area and the news reporters.

Body 1:
Kip.
The police and others around are basically indirectly accusing Kip that he knows or has anything to do with Grace’s disappearance, by saying; “Is there anywhere you think we should look?”. They just jumped to the conclusion that he had something to do with it, regardless of the possibility that it was just a coincidence that Kip was at the beach when it happened.
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Eg. Why Kip had gotten into the water and that Kip was linked to what had happened to Grace. They never got many facts right with all their second guessing, but then again, I guess that’s what cops are supposed to do.

Body 3:
New Reporters.
Due to the fact that most of the individuals read the daily paper, most of them wouldn’t have realized what had truly happened on that chilling night, the newspaper had probably made some of it’s information up, attempting to make it all a little more intriguing, causing more harm than good. An example would be that the newspaper says that Kip was the last individual to see Grace, however this isn’t entirely true.
The newspaper had numerous individuals jumping to conclusions about what had happened on that regrettable day.
If they were more astute they probably wouldn’t have gotten into all the inconvenience of asking Kip and Grace about what had happened, yet attempted to place themselves in their shoes and imagine how they felt about having somebody observing them every minute of the day.

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