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Kent Family Chronicles Study Guide

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by John Jakes
About 10 pages (2,888 words)
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The Bastard is told in third-person narrative from the point of view of Philip Kent, the central character. The later volumes become more impersonal and objective and are related by an omniscient narrator as is Homeland (1993). Somewhere in the first section of each subsequent novel, there appears a brief summary of the preceding story thereby enabling the reader to pick up the series at almost any point.

The first book in the epic adventure begins with a dream, a foreboding of the situations that will evolve. Using the wind as a metaphor — the winds of luck and the changing circum stances — the author describes the trials and tribulations, the glory and defeat, of the Kent family. The actions shift from character to character, especially in The Rebels and The Seekers where one.....

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Kent Family Chronicles from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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