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Violence In The Longest Ride By Nicolas Sparks

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The two categories of violence in literature according to Foster are: “specific injury that authors cause characters to visit on one another or themselves, and the narrative violence that causes characters harm in general”. For example, in the Divergent series, more specifically in the first book, there is a war between the Dauntless and the Erudite. This war did not do anything but help Tris (the main character) realize what her position and her role was in her dauntless “community”. An example of narrative violence would be in the book The Longest Ride by Nicolas Sparks. In the book Luke who was a famous bull rider had lost his father at an early age due to bull riding. His fathers death was not what the whole movie was about; however, Sparks

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