Sentences with phrase «anger at his novel»

In an interview with BBC Radio 4 broadcast on Saturday, Mr. Rushdie spoke of the parallels between the anger at his novel and the past week's violent protests by fundamentalist Muslims offended at the trailer for a crude film mocking the prophet.

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In the opening pages of the novel, a peevish ten - year - old boy conceals a stone inside a snowball and throws it in anger at another, who ducks, so that the snowball goes on to hit an unintended victim, a pregnant woman who is thereby brought prematurely into labor.
As you read a novel, you feel the emotions of the protagonists, sharing their fears, their anger at injustices, surprise when their assumptions turn out to be wrong, and joy when they finally solve their problems.
At the beginning of his debut novel The Kept, one of James Scott's main characters, Elspeth Howell, is described as a sinner whose multitude of transgressions involve anger, covetousness and thievery.
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