Palace of Mirrors by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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* Character~ Cecilia has changed/developed more powerful actions and bravery. She has turned from being too shy to ask if she is the real princess and instead she quotes, “Sir Stephen are you Desmia’s tutor too?” on page 6 which is showing us that she was too scared to ask . Then in the middle she was turned into someone who thought they knew everything but she really didn’t on page 171 she says, “I am the real princess.” when she actually doesn’t know. During the end Cecilia was brave enough to tell all the girls that they could rule as equals. As in the book it says on page 283, “ Of course we could all rule as equals-there thirteen of us ,so there’d always be someone to break the tie”. Which had showed that she was brave enough to say that in front of all the people.

*Ideas~ The main idea developed overtime when Cecilia thought if she showed up at the castle she would automatically become princess. Then when she actually got at the castle she thought that if she told Desmia she would believe her, when she didn’t she thought about ways to get out but couldn’t. Next after Desmia let her out the main Idea was to find out who was the real princess like on page 179 “I am!” when 11 girls had claimed they were the right princess when Desmia had asked who was the true princess.

*Meaning~ Denotation for the word Beggars is they live by begging and the connotation for the word is homeless with nothing to eat or drink. The word beggars is important in this story because without the beggars of their city Cecilia wouldn’t of been able to act like one , on page 217-218 where it quotes “Okay,so I look terrible. So what? Wait a minute-can I use that?”. Which means that if there weren’t any beggars she couldn’t use that disguise. Deno...

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...e events in the text as the events happened there isn’t any flashbacks. In the book the author wrote every event has it happened and didn’t go back in time. For example every sentence is going on to tell what is happening and not going back in time. Like in this sentence “We can talk at the top,” which isn’t going back in time its telling us what is going to happen.

The author did this to show that the character developed from the beginning to the end of the book, that the main idea changes over time, the meaning of the words all mean something else and that theres a reason she put those words in the book. Also to show that the point of view is in first person since it comes from Cecilia thoughts and the author put the order in to explain how the story goes the author didn’t put in any flashbacks so she could tell what's happening and what's going to happen.

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