Annie John

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   sullymonster Teacher
   Community / Jr. College

   Annie John is a bildungsroman, a coming of age story.  The narrator, Annie, is an adult who is explaining how she established her own identity.  As all children do, the child Annie hit a point when she was testing the control she had over other people.  Her desire to make Sonia suffer is a desire to test her own abilities to control the emotions of others.  Annie doesn't do because she wants Sonia to hurt; she does it because she is trying to understand her own place in the world.

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   Posted by sullymonster on Monday December 31, 2007 at 3:00 PM
   
   

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   daddysgrrl1991 Student
   High School - 10th Grade

   maybe because that is how you show your love to someone if you don't know what love is yet.

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   Posted by daddysgrrl1991 on Monday March 24, 2008 at 8:16 AM
   
   

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