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Literary Elements In Beat The Reaper

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Pulling out guns, getting attacked, killing others, and having to run away from the police, events that occur in Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell. This novel is exciting and keeps readers on their toes. The thrilling aspect does entice the reader, but literacy elements are why the audience keeps flipping pages. Beat the Reaper manages to get the job done with the use of literary elements. The main attraction to a novel is the characters. Dr. Peter Brown, also known by his criminal alias Pietro Brown, is the protagonist in the story. Dr. Brown works at the rundown Manhattan Catholic Hospital. Pietro Brown, was part of a mafia, where he took part in the crimes. This one man has led two different lives within the space of the novel; …show more content…

He grew up with his grandparents, but they got murdered when he was fourteen, on October 10,1991 After that incident, he went to go live in his Uncle Barry’s, house but Pietro’s uncle and aunt were not pleased with this idea because they believed that a child who was abandoned at birth and then found his grandparents’ dead could become dangerous. Therefore, Pietro managed to convince his uncle to let him live in his grandparent’s house alone. A couple years later, Pietro went to boarding school and met a boy named Adam Locano but was referred to as Skinflick. Eventually, Skinflick and Pietro formed a bond and become good friends. As a result, Pietro became part of the Locano family. This family was part of the mafia. Growing up, Pietro had to kill and do crimes, it is the only thing he knew. Years later, at a wedding, Pietro met a girl named Magdalena and he fell in love with her. After falling in love with her, he realized the mafia was not what he wanted. He told Skinflick that he wanted to get out, and Skinflick responded that he could after one more job. He agreed. Pietro did the job, but the worst-case scenario happened, the police caught him. Pietro ended up going to jail. In this time, he thought about what had occurred and knew that when he got out, he was going to just be with Magdalena and not do anything that could harm them from being together. When he got out, he did just as is. Pietro leaving his old, risky life to …show more content…

Fiction novels do just that with the plot. As the novel begins, Peter Brown explains the beginning of his day, he is mugged. After that incident, recalls his past, including on how he met David Locano who got him involved in the mafia. As the novel is narrated, the rising action occurs, being Dr. Brown using flashbacks to when he was in the mafia and his experiences back in the day. The climax of the novel is when Dr. Brown gets corned in the hospital by mafia members. At this point, the reader is alarmed as to what could happen. Dr. Brown thinks quickly on his feet, he has a gun in his leg and pulls it out and shoots the mafia members. Then the falling action occurs, where Dr. Brown decides to leave the hospital, but comes to the realizes that his patient with Osteosarcoma can be cured so he rushes back. Dr. Brown realizes he might lose his job, but now knows that he is passionate about medicine and wants to continue in the field. Conflict is an important element in a novel. In the novel, Beat the Reaper, the conflict being that Dr. Brown does not know about the surgeon, and that believes his life is at risk because his old mafia members are back. This plot is between him and David Locano, therefore it is an external plot. The progression of this novel was

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