What Are The Techniques Used In Ayn Rand's Broken Thornhill?

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In this companion book, I talked about the important character, structure in time, symbolism, character relationship, inner thinking, and included a fan fiction at last. I analyzed how the author uses techniques such as flashbacks and symbols to help build up the entire story. Overall, this novel is about love, ambition, and dream. The relationship between Charlie, Stefan, and Jess shows a strong feeling towards the topic love. It’s an important part of the story since without it, the entire novel won’t be as attention grabbing as it would’ve been. All the heavy decisions Jess made such as leaving her house for a better future, it’s all because of her ambition of aiming towards her dream, which is to receive her scholarship. For her entire life, she had always worked extremely hard to reach her dream, this shows how hard-working someone can possibly be when they really have a strong desire to get something they want. …show more content…
Readers learned more about the symbolism, characters, how the plot went, and a lot more. For example, readers may not have noticed much about the structure in time at first, but after reading this, they should have a better knowledge about the flashbacks and flash-forwards towards the topic. As a result, many facts about the book Broken Strings is explained thoroughly in this companion book and readers surely have a better understanding of it now. What happens after her entire stay in London? What do you readers think will happen? Broken Strings is an open-ended book. The author probably made an open-ended ending by allowing the readers to use their imagination and build up an end of what they think it should be. To sum up the entire companion book, it allowed readers to gain more facts about the book and enjoy reading in

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