Everything I Never Told You

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Although the novels have various stories, sometimes a novel could be compared with another novel. It is because they have the same case and could be analyzed by the same theory. Such as, Little Women (1868 and 1869) by Louisa May Alcott and Everything I Never Told You (2014) by Celeste Ng. Little Women (1868 and 1869) talks about four sisters and among all the sisters, there is one that is an ambitious woman named Josephine March, which is also known as Jo. She wants to break the role that a woman could not freely do what she wants to do in that era. The author tries to criticize the culture in that era when women did not have the equal power as the men when it comes to a job. While the other novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), the setting

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