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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher’s idiosyncrasies in the text are- not eating food after it has touched other food‚ ‘if his senses become overloaded or his brain is confused’ he will curl up in a ball and groan and perhaps for hours at a time‚ he prefers red‚ hates brown and yellow‚ he uses consecutive colours of cars to determine if it were to be a good day or a bad day. When I discussed my idiosyncrasies with my mum she stated- Every live stock truck that drives

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    Khaled Hosseini creates suspense throughout the novel using several different techniques: from foreshadowing to metaphorical inputs that makes the reader’s imagination run wild. A tantalising mixture of all of the techniques and a contrast of good and evil‚ hot and cold and an extremely significant contrast of lifestyles and personalities makes the reader feel on edge after every chapter‚ every stanza‚ and every line. The novels most critical part is in chapter seven with some important parts within

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    support your ideas with detailed references to the text. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-time which is written from the view of a fifteen year old boy Christopher who has Asperger’s syndrome‚ not only does this book demonstrate how challenging life is for the disabled‚ but also for everyone. Having the main character Christopher narrate the story gives you the chance to connect with him and also to experience and understand the challenges he faces in his everyday

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    In the novel The Kite Runner‚ written by Khaled Hosseini‚ the characters Hassan‚ Amir and Sohrab fill important roles throughout the story. Hassan fills the role of tragedy within the novel because of the multiple unfortunate events which occur toward him in the novel. As a child Hassan is bullied for being a Hazara and is then raped for the same reason. Hassan is betrayed by his best friend when Amir watches him get raped but does nothing to stop it‚ and lastly Hassan is killed as a young adult

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    Life of Pi

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    Pi (short for Piscine Molitor Patel) is a young Indian boy growing up in South India in the 1970’s. His father owns a zoo and‚ with increasing political unrest in India‚ decides to sell up and emigrate to Canada. In true Noah’s ark fashion‚ they accompany the wild animals on board the ship on their journey to the new zoos in North America. The ship sinks and Pi finds himself the only human survivor onboard a life raft that contains‚ rather remarkably‚ a zebra‚ a large motherly orangutan‚ a frenzied

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    "The Kite Runner" tells us‚ through Rahkim Khan that‚ "True redemption is when guilt leads to good again..." Rahkim Khan states. Throughout the course of The Kite Runner there are many characters that have committed sins and subsequently attempted to redeem themselves. The Kite Runner structured around main characters‚ Amir and Baba and their acts of betrayal. The impact of these acts continues to be felt throughout the novel manifesting itself in Amirs guilt ridden narrative. However‚ guilt is not

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    Alex DaPonte Mrs. Gill College English March 27 2012 Atonement and Redemption‚ the Cure to Sin Sin will always be part of humanity‚ but the atonement of those sins is what matters in the end. What changes is the severity of the sin and the lengths one has to go in order to atone for those sins and redeem one’s self. In Hosseini’s novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ guilt‚ atonement of sins and redemption all show that no matter what a person’s sin may be‚ he or she will always be able to atone for that

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    The Struggle to Be Normal In today’s society‚ many teenagers struggle in their everyday lives due to the fact that they have different qualities than others. The novel‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ is about a young man named Holden Caulfield‚ who suffers from multiple mental illnesses‚ causing him to be treated different by others. Due to tragedies he has suffered from in the past‚ and all that is going on in is present life‚ Holden can no longer cope and runs away to New York. Christopher

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    Pi Patel a Hero

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    Not all literature that consists of an adventure brands the protagonist as a hero; however‚ Yann Martell’s Life of Picontains many patterns of a monomyth quest. The Heroic Monomyth‚ also known as the hero’s journey‚ explains the common stages of a quest in many classic stories. The novel is split into three sections‚ each with a specific purpose. The first section introduces the readers to the protagonist‚ while the second section is the actual journey he partook in. The final section is the ambiguous

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    Yann Martel’s Use of Tone Yann Martel uses different tones in Life of Pi to portray his opinions of Pi Patel. He uses Pi to show humor‚ curiosity‚ savage‚ despair‚ philosophy‚ and definitely horror throughout the novel. Pi is forced to live with a tiger in such a confined space that he must find a way to train Richard Parker. Pi comforts himself by pretending he is a tiger trainer in “THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH!” (Martel 208). This is Martel’s way of showing how Pi Patel is humorous even in troubling

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