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Growth from Personal Experience in "The Simple Gift" and "Spider-Man"
Summary: The free-verse novel "The Sample Gift" by Steven Herrick explores the idea of transitions in a person's life that lead to personal growth and change. This same theme can be found in the film "Spider-Man," in which Peter Parker accepts his new role of superhero over his previously nerdy persona.
When individuals enter a new stage of personal experience, they are shaped as to develop a response of growth and change. The Simple Gift by Steven Herrick is a text that explores this concept of transitions into new phases of an individual's life.
The Simple Gift is a free-verse novel targeted to young adults. The novel is divided into eleven chapters and again into ten or so poems within each chapter. Each chapter and poems are given appropriate titles relevant to its content. Herrick's decision to compose in free-verse allows him to produce text written as thoughts or speech unrestricted by structure, rhyme or rhythm in a traditional poem.
Each poem is written in the first person with the persona indicated in script at the top right of the page, like a signature. The persona communicates intimately and personally to the responder, confiding the occurrences in a recountive...
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