Search for Senna | Literary Qualities

Search for Senna Literary Qualities

Applegate likes to experiment, and her novels tend to be lively exercises in ideas and techniques. In the case of Everworld, she creates a place where all the world's ancient mythologies coexist, and she has fun creating adventures that involve mixing the mythologies. For the Everworld series, she creates four adventurers who are snatched from fairly ordinary teenaged American lives, although Jalil's psychological problems are somewhat out of the ordinary. Through these characters she experiments with techniques of narration by having each one narrate novels. The personality of each narrator shows through in the telling of each book, so that Everworld is described through David's love of action and interest in logistics in Search for Senna, through Christopher's acidic humor and tendency to see below the surface of events to find what is really going on in Land of Loss, through April's good sense and practicality in Enter the Enchanted,...
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