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In The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Gossip From the Forest, Richard Flanagan and Thomas Keneally both use a connected writing style to display the different themes of the importance of culture and the destruction of war.

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In A bend in the river and A house for Mr. Biswas, V.S. Naipaul provides the complete picture of what a person needs to be one with himself, or whole, and reveals the struggle certain characters go through as they want to be part of a collective group.

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Throughout The Adaptable Man and Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame, she uses her non conformist unique writing style to convey the deep themes of human adaptability and melancholy.

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In A Small Place and Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid the author uses tone and narration to indirectly bring attention to the struggles of the Antiguan people and show the importance of not taking things for granted.

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In The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson and Michelle Cliff’s If I Could Write This in Fire the author’s both highlight the life of Jamaican heritage and the racism that comes with it, while using very different writing styles of a fictional narrative and autobiographical poetry.

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The idea of finding and keeping happiness is a common them in Jacques Poulin's Volkswagen Blues and Spring Tides as the main characters explore how their life and identity evokes a sense of belonging and serenity.

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In the play O Starry Starry Night, and the stories of A Brief Conversion, the characters exhibit abnormal personality traits to display that even the most talented individuals are only human, and that true perfection is unachievable.

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Throughout Schindler’s Ark and Victim of the Aurora, author Thomas Keneally uses history to express the European social injustices occurring during the early twentieth century.

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In both his novel The Home And The World and some of his Selected Short Stories, Rabindranath Tagore expresses the importance of eliminating religious hypocrisy in society, the importance of education in revolting a corrupt officialdom, and the importance of love as a source of unification rather than power or wealth, but the Selected Short Stories gives his input on marriage like his disagreement with child marriage and the dowry system.

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Throughout both novels, At the Bottom of the River and Annie Frank, the author, Jamaica Kincaid, emphasizes the struggling relationship between mother and daughter, the want for a better life, and the expectations of young girls in society.

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Throughout Capitalism: A Ghost Story and Things That Can and Cannot Be Said, author Arundhati Roy depicts the darkness behind democracy and the ways in which capitalism can cultivate a sense of hostility.

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In her novels Lucy and See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid reveals that letting go of the past will ultimately lead to self-discovery and independence from the anchor in their troubled lives that holds them back from finding their true identities.

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In both The Namesake and collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, author Jhumpa Lahiri depicts her personal growth as an Indian American and her quest to find her identity through the tone of the stories as they are presented in both works.

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In her novels Of Love Possessed and From Harvey River, Lorna Goodison focuses on the theme of human relationships to give her audience a broad range of Jamaican society.

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In Prizes and Towards Another Summer, Janet Frame demonstrates how it feels to be an outsider and illustrates the thought processes of the minds of the mentally ill while effectively utilizing stylistic elements to prove her point.

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In the novel, Disgrace by John Maxwell Coetzee, the author’s style uses dialogue to show the deep struggles within the main character, which shows the development of his thoughts as he struggles to find what they take out of life.

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In the novel, Wanting and Victim of Aurora, both authors used non chronological order of plots to help revolve around the central subject of social acceptance and desiredness to inherit the tragedy of the human condition.

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The book I, Tituba by Maryse Conde and the book Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace both contain elements of situational irony in their works to emphasize and demonstrate the difficult circumstances, that the main characters are in.

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The novels Mister Pip and Here At the End of The World We Learn to Dance by Lloyd Jones are both based in worlds filled with tragedy through which the protagonist finds an escape such as dance or literature that helps them survive the horrible conditions they are surrounded with.

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Though the perspectives are different in the books "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places" by Le Ly Hayslip and "Stay Alive, My Son" by Pin Yathay on the different matters of war and identity, both authors heed the same warning for the future of mankind.

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Through The Guide and Malgudi Days, R.K. Narayan demonstrates the problems of poverty in people and society as a whole to show how it can impact them in a similar or different manner.

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Throughout Season in Purgatory and The Tyrants Novel, Thomas Keneally uses self conflict and politics to examine the struggle that someone living through a war period in a foreign country might have to go through.

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Over the course of "The Great Shame" and "From Origins to Eureka", Thomas Keneally solidifies not only his personal reverence of history, but also the notion that we too should be wary of the places we come from. With his use of nonfiction in his historical books, he gives the reader a unique look into the pasts of countries that tend to be seldom talked about, in this case Ireland and Australia.

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In The Pickup, and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, both authors use symbolism of characters and their arcs of their journeys to express their discontent with the corrupt African government, social class divisions, and the struggle to modernize and organize modern countries  in Africa in the direct aftermath of colonialism by the British.

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In The Artist of Disappearance  by Anita Desai and From Heaven’s Lake by Vikram Seth, both authors use the imagery of nature to convey messages about isolation and freedom from society; Seth explores the ethnic minorities of China and analyzes their culture, Desai strives to probe the lives of people living in the mountains of India. Both authors use the themes exploration and adventure to examine the lives of rural people.

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Throughout Schindler's List and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the themes of racial prejudiced and the natural evilness of human beings are being portrayed by Thomas Keneally's usage of a historical factual narrative to show the horrors of a split up and racist society.

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In Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Adichie uses different points of view and varying tenses to explore both loneliness felt by individuals within larger groups and their reactions; she also examines race relations between Nigerian characters and both Western and other African characters.

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