November 9 Colleen Hoover Literary Elements

In November 9 by Colleen Hoover, Fallon, a flawed woman, struggles to love herself and Ben. In the beginning, Fallon is arguing with her father over her choice of occupation. After she was incinerated in a fire when she was 16, the option of acting went out the window. Fallon starts recording audiobooks; her father thinks it is a waste of potential. All of a sudden, a random guy slides into the booth next to her and starts sticking up for her.

This tactic of writing has helped her audience connect with Hoover on a personal level. Her novels repeatedly have left readers in tears, and her novels truly leave a big impression

Laurie Halse Anderson represents Melinda's ability to move past her assault through her trees in art class and Melinda uses that assignment as a source of communication and finding her voice to speak up about her assault and depression. Melinda does not have enough of a support group to feel comfortable telling

An example of this is in the quote, “she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and

Tally said she felt that “‘being pretty was like being a child, safe from all harm’” (Westerfield 49). However, after her journey to the Smoke, she realizes that being “pretty” isn’t the solution she needs. After getting the surgery, each person looks almost identical which enforces the idea of control and societal conformity. However, after Tally chooses not to become pretty, she breaks that barrier.

In this section, An-mei realizes that if one is to discover one's identity, one's heritage, one must metaphorically "peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until then, there is nothing. " Nothing, except the scar. An-mei has a scar, a reminder of the day that her mother came to Popo's house and begged An-mei to come with her, and at that moment, a pot of dark boiling soup spilled on tiny An-mei.

“Her eyes were too wide apart.” This shows that society has brought them up to think that beauty is everything. Tally and Shay immediately become friends, and as they are talking Tally finds out that Shay does not actually want to become pretty. Shay’s friends have escaped outside the city to an area called ‘The Smoke’. It is later revealed that the smoke has a community of people who have stayed ugly and built their own civilisation.

After all, she had been through enough. Not just her mother’s death, but the constant moving, and the whole issue with being a teenager. If a few scars were going to help her deal with it, then so be it, and most importantly she had promised not to do it again,

This reasoning contributes to the overall significance of scars in the novel which is that scars serve as reminders of the suffering characters had to endure, therefore,

The ending presents The anticipated of the protagonist:‘Slowly, slowly’, showing an exhilarated feeling to once be true to her nature, also adding: ‘he will lick the skin of me!’ This exclamatory term brings an exhilarating shrill that she never thought to experience, she lets her past go by not returning to her father and sending her simulation in place of her. Beauty realises each layer comes off to see her ‘beautiful fur’, becoming a rebirth in life, she accepts her true nature and is liberated from uncovering her mask. Carter projects the importance of transgression through the transformation being themselves, as contemporary society enforces unrealistic beauty standards, forcing young women to lock away to fit whats beautiful, Carter enforced this needed change and using an authorial intrusion: ‘tigers will never lie down with the lamb, the lamb must learn to run with tigers’ carter messages to readers that they should proceed to action, not become needed for

The tree image indicates that she has been wiped so much that the scar looks like a tree with its crowded branches. “But that’s what she said it looked like. A chokecherry tree.

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Though on the outside, she’s glamorous, on the inside, she’s a shell of what she used to be. Her external appearance does not reflect what she truly feels, leading the rest of the world to fall for her facade. Her prioritization of the end goal–fame and fortune, has led her to lose herself, the one who died along with her

One character who struggles with beauty is Pauline. Ever since she was a little girl her perception of beauty has been amiss. Pauline at the age of two stepped on a rusty nail that punctured through her foot. After her foot healed Pauline was left with an indefinite limp. As she grew up Pauline’s limp affected how others saw her, and she because distant.

Duffy paints the picture of a survivor using her new tools to get the trauma off her chest and move on from that point in her