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Summer Reading Analysis The five of the literary works that were introduced and explained throughout the course of a few days, all conveyed extremely distinct, yet deep messages that will make the audience analyze these influential pieces even further. And from the presentations, readers can then compare and contrast these various books, though the ideas and writings expressed by the diverse authors that created them, in which most of their personal notions and experiences inspired them to set free certain feelings that was eventually incorporated into the form of American literature.
One similarity discovered, was between the books No No Boy written by John Okada , and House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. The resemblance with these

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