Love, Truth, And Identity In Department 19: The Rising

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In my novel: Department 19: The Rising the search for love, truth, and Identity comes into play multitudinously. Jamie’s life has been an utter disaster since the day he agreed to the terms of Department 19. He was hoping for a sojourn of a stay, but with the demise of his father, and the transmogrification of his mother into a vampire, he is in way over his head. Furthermore, the insurmountable burden of taking care of the greatest threat to mankind on his shoulders, Jamie Carpenter is in for an adventure. I believe that all novels have specific points of love, truth, and identity, but it is indisputable in Department 19: The Rising.
Jamie and his squadron have been struggling with identity since the beginning. The void between being a vampire,
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Love was being portrayed between Jamie and Larissa in the battle of backlight. In the battle, the operatives faced one their greatest adversaries to the date, Valeri Rusamanov. Jamie and Larissa’s relationship was portrayed before the battle patently: “Jamie, listen to me, I called to tell you that I love you. Okay? I don’t want to never have said it” (Hill 489). Their relationship has been complicated for the most part in the novel. Despite the undeniable fact that one is human, and the other is a vampire, they experience their typical teenage relationship. After the battle of black light, Larissa, miraculously surviving an ultraviolet nuclear explosion, mused of Jamie, before she saw him sprinting toward her. Their love between each other was portrayed in this section: “She clamped her arms around him and felt his face bury itself in her neck, felt the heat from his skin and the damp that was gathering around his eyes, and her heart swelled with happiness and relief” (Hill 525). After overcoming near death experiences, Jamie and Larissa are still together, and that’s all the matters in Jamie’s perspective. Their love is as strong as the gravity of a black

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