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There are many ways to write a good story; compelling characters, vividness, and conflicts. Sadly, there are also many ways to write a terrible story for instance; flat characters, unimaginative imagery, unrelatable material, and an uncompelling conflict. There are two types of character flat characters, characters that have not been fleshed out, and round characters, who are characters that have developed in characters that the reader care about. Vividness is a tool that many writers use to engage an audience usually works because the reader could imagine the exact scenario that the character is in. When authors do not use vividness the story could come out bland and unappealing. A story is futile without a conflict, and if the …show more content…

If a writer has a weak conflict the story get boring, but if the story has too many conflicts the story would be to confusing. In the books Streams To The River, Rivers To The Sea and Touching Spirit Bear are two different books, and Streams To The River, Rivers To The Sea has a less compelling story than Touching Spirit Bear. Characters are always what are important in books, if there are no characters there is no story, but in Touching Spirit Bear and Streams To The River, Rivers To The Sea the two ways that authors wrote their characters are very different. The protagonists of the books are Cole Mathews from Touching Spirit Bear, and Sacagawea from Streams To The River, Rivers To The Sea. Cole Matthews is a juvenile delinquent who is sent to an island to find inner peace. Ben Mikaelsen, the author of touching spirit bear, has developed the characters by describing every scene, emotion, and thought of Cole. Sacagawea, the

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“All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil.” - Anon. You may not realize this, however this quote is surprisingly true. An example of this can be found in the novel, “Before We Were Free” by Julia Alvarez, where the protagonist Anita, is living with her family in the Dominican Republic lead by El Jefe, the antagonist. Throughout the novel, several conflicts occur between Anita (and her family) and El Jefe.

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One side of the river is where his Indian home was, while the other side is where his White home was. Ending the book in that moment symbolized how True Son’s heart and soul were split in two, feeling so lost where he doesn’t know where to go next, literally and figuratively. Overall, the river symbolizes the grey area of True Son’s identity crisis. I was interested in book struggle since it was so psychological and meaningful. It shares nice lessons such as nobody or family is perfect.

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