My Brilliant Friend Analysis

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Boundaries are an integral part of being alive and therefore they are present at every stage of the process of living. This makes them, first of all, necessary because they contribute to the creation of all animate and inanimate forms. Without boundaries there would be no form; there would only be an ever-expanding mass. At the same time boundaries can also be constricting, limiting, especially if accepted as insurmountable and all encompassing. When this happens, boundaries can stunt growth on all levels; they can turn something historical that should be analyzed, understood and placed within its proper context into something natural or worse, eternal. In the formation novel My Brilliant Friend, boundaries play a variety of contrasting roles

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