In fact, this is the essence of this division of children's fantasy: Enchanted realism is created for the characters in the story, or actually readers, to see through the real world. ... What is presented to the readers in Harry Potter is only a magic world of mysterious astonishment and adorable imagination, while The Secret Garden demonstrates profound concern about the inside world and an attempt to resolve the situatiion with the power of nature and love. ... The Secret Garden, as serious writing, is taken in Oxford University Press World's Classic, Penguin Twentieth-Century C...

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• Approx Pages: 6
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(Dumarier 2) is the famous opening line to the classic novel Rebecca. ... Rebecca is in many ways similar to the story of Cinderella, a classic Gothic Romance (Masterplots 3). ... hough, and that helps the reader relate to her and sympathize for her. ... This keeps the reader trying to figure out if Maxim really loves her or not. ... Dumaurier starts off her novel with elements of a classic Gothic Romance, and ends the story in mystery and suspense. ...

• Word Count: 1831
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The reader can choose whether to read the novel as satire or fantasy. ... In offering readers the opportunity to interpret and imagine, the author keeps the reader straddling between what is fantastical and what is real. ... The narrative voice and its tangents and interruptions break the story line and throw the reader off. ... The entire novel can be thoroughly enjoyed without any understanding of Goldman's satirical motives, and because the storyline falls within the margins of the romantic tradition, it can truly be appreciated as a "classic tale of true love and high adventur...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Subsequently, the writerly form of the novel, drawing the responder in through use of rhetoric and exaggeration, is replaces by a more readerly text when adapted to the film medium, with the responders observing rather than experiencing the story. ... In the book, Goldman's frequent comments on the novel and his creation of an external world help the responders to relate to him as fellow readers, while the relation of the book to the real world helps to convey his message that "life isn't fair." ... The different mediums of production have different audiences, purposes and techniq...

• Word Count: 1547
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her drive for success sparked a new literary classic, as well as a successful movie, produced just four years after the release of her book. ... By using this method, the reader is able to hear the thoughts of two different characters and how they perceive events. ... The plot structure of the novel is a very important element to Guest's technique, it leaves the reader questioning the past. ... This further drives the reader to seek more answers as to why the past occurred the way it had. ... He voices his opinion that Beth's point of view is barely articulated and it leaves the read...

• Word Count: 2059
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Great writers possess abilities to empathize with their readers. ... One example is Jane Austen's traditional classic, Pride and Prejudice. This piece of literature exhibits the time period's life style and significance by giving the readers a feel of what would be of importance to a typical family in relation to the time period. ... Doing this he makes the readers feel like he understands their misery and pain. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School