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          Tortilla Flat
          Beginning of essay 
 by John Steinbeck 
Henry James wrote that the novel is to be experienced--therefore the reader must completely understand what happens in it. You should appropriate comparisons, contrasts, draw analogies of what is in the novel and one's own experience. While the elements of fiction are important  ....
          Middle of essay ....ous, scholarly, angry, contemptuous, humorous, satirical, melancholy, prudish, flippant, cautious, sentimental etc.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE NOVEL?
1. Literature is a mirror reflecting life.
2. Literature can interpret life for us.
 3. Literature can sustain and console us.
 4. Literature is a source of moral guidance, and spiritual 	inspiration.
 5. Literature is the probable successor of philosophy and religion (Matthew Arnold).
 6. According to Aristotle and Horace - literature can foster v....           |   
          
          
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