Gore By Sarah Ellis: Literary Analysis

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Do you have a brother or sister? If you do, you may know they are many different ideas and thoughts about having siblings. I have a brother myself and we get along quite well. The book “Gore” written by Sarah Ellis talks about the behaviors of siblings and how they treat each other. In “Gore”, the beginning explains the bizarre coincidences of twins separated at birth. Later on in the story, it introduces us the characters. Amy and Lucas, which are twins. During the reading, Lucas stole Amy’s book and in “Gore” Amy described Lucas as a “unevolved thugoid”(2). This later results in Amy playing an act about aliens to rick Lucas to giving the book back. As you can see, The relationship of these two is horrid and they don’t get along.

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