Opal Buloni's Analysis Of Because Of Winn-Dixie

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Because of Because of Winn-Dixie is a bittersweet tale of contemporary life as of a resilient child living lonely in a quaint Southern town. This willwill haveold readers engrossed with theregarding themes of friendship, moral lessons, and forgiveness along with a small portion of Cchristianly.
Thise book focuses on the lifeves of an eleven year old girl, name India “Opal” Buloni, the protagonist, and her companionship with her dog,dog name Winn-Dixie. Opal recallerecallsd her experience onf the summer her life changed because of the dog she adopts. her adopted dog. InIn the beginning of the first chapter, we are introduced to the relationship of Opal and her father, whom she usually refers to as "the preacher." Her mother abandoned the family when Opal was three years old and which is often left Opal unaccompanied in her trailer park since as her father preached in Open Arms Baptist Church of Naomi. She yearnedwants to know more about concerning her mother, buthowever her father the preacher would not tell her.
Opal was at the Winn-Dixie grocery store ands the stray dog wandered in causing to it and caused commotion for the employees. She pitied for the dog and decided to bring him home. The stray dog was named after the grocery store he was found in. With the assist of Winn-Dixie, Opal begins to meet a number of eccentric people in her
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There is a language difficulty level in Because of Winn-Dixie novel as it incorporatesd background knowledge, theme, symbolism, text length, plot, and vocabulary, language conventionality in figurative language /idiomatic language/dialects, similes, metaphors, and idioms. Howeveridioms. However, this novel has a real life application and captures the attention of students quickly based on the adventures of Opal andwith her newly dogacquired pet,

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