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Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park: Character Analysis

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In Rainbow Rowell 's Eleanor & Park, we encounter one of the protagonists of the novel, Eleanor Douglas, as a dynamic character. This is shown in the instance when Eleanor transforms from having an exceedingly strenuous time being able to express her emotions to having the capacity to tell Park that she is infatuated with him. Daily, Eleanor is confronted with the hardships of bullying, domestic violence and discrimination. At first, Eleanor is depicted as an extremely timid and easily intimidated character. She does not ever act upon her violent stepfather, Richie, or the popular girl in school, Tina, and all her friends, the people that usually cause the distress that plagues Eleanor. She 's relentlessly tormented by her classmates, who

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