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Girl Who Played With Fire

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Whether mountains or molehills, conflicts are present in life. Most often they are redundant or trite, but sometimes they are worthy of considerable perturbation. The latter is a recurring trend in the paths of Lisbeth Salander, Paolo Roberto, and Mikael Blomkvist as they strive to find the responsible parties that caused the deaths of Dag Svensson, Mia Johansson, and Nils Bjurman in The Girl Who Played With Fire. Each subject endures his or her own different category of conflict- Salander as it relates to society, Roberto with himself, and Blomkvist versus Gunnar Björck. A prime example of character versus society conflict is in the case of Lisbeth Salander. Declared incompetent and in need of state mandated guardianship into her adulthood,
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