Essay On Spy Novels

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Have ever you imagine that your life will become dangerous all the time?
You have to be very careful with anything or anyone that you see on the street or even in your lovely house. You can not have a good sleep because of someone will kill you or steal your secret information during you sleeping. And you always have to ideological struggle that you should betrayed the country and have a great life in the place the you work on or still doing your job and make your country proud of you. That is a life of a spy, an intelligent person that serve for the country in silence to get the very important for their country to win the battle. Thanks for the spy novel that brought us the sight of the spy life. Especially during cold war, the rising of the
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This genre raised during the early twenty centuries. The easy way to define a spy novels is the turning of the good character to the bad character and the term “Betrayal” are using a lot in the spy novel too. This genre mostly reflect the rivalry of two or more countrie that try to become better that each other. With the interesting and logically plot. Also it is brought to the audience sympathy feeling for the spy character that they have to live in the very strange …show more content…
Because of mostly cold war authors were former spy or work for military. So the reality in the text are fully utilized. When we read the Cold war spy novel, we can easily realize the similarity of all Cold War spy characters. Like, they are all master in the disguises and tactics. They will use every tricks that to success their mission, even that trick may harm or kill many peoples. Also, in Cold War spy novels, the term betrayal” are very important. This is always use at the climax in the text that make the reader surprise because of the twist and feel admiration of the smart and bravery of the spy even they are in good side or bad

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