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What Is The Misappropriation Of The Cider House Rules

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Review: The Cider House Rules by John Irving Irving, J. (1986). The Cider House Rules. (second edition). London: Black Swan The Cider House Rules was written by John Irving 30years ago; the story of the book finds place in an orphanage. A child called "homer", who spend his entire childhood in that orphanage, hopes to find ‘new’ parents who want to adopt him. Eventually he will never be adopted, but he eventually becomes the doctor of the orphanage after the death of the current doctor Larch who dies from the misappropriation of ether. The book gives a good mimetic function. It gives a great perception on the society of that era. Firstly this is done on the base of how they describe the notion of abortion. Doing abortion was a crime at the
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