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Thank you We sneak in Speak archetypes I'll ashman What

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are archetypes and how are they used in the novel

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You could call any of these characters archetypes That means

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just a sort of stereotypical character type and others use

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them because there's so much going on in a novel

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that you can't always flesh out every So what an

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archetype does is it gives people like a very quick

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and easy and recognizable way toe understand what's going on

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and that allows you to spend more time on your

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main character and in this novel because we have a

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main character doesn't talk very much to others whose very

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much her head way need a lot of time so

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we can understand her That pushes you other pictures to

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the side But that also heightens the drama It's just

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good for a story toe have people who are clearly

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like villain people who clearly serve a function on Then

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we have our protagonist who were rooting for as all

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of these other terrible people clash with them Yeah what

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are archetypes And how are they used in the novel

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