The president's wife makes a brief guest appearance in the le Carré book; in one passage, characters cannot visit the gardens of the Champs-Élysées in Paris because "Michelle Obama and her children are in town".
In short, affecting passages, these characters tell their stories, often with considerable overlap.
There are graphic illustrations of passages and characters from the novel.
Although designed as a work for the stage, with specific passages accompanying characters and action, the music achieved equal if not greater recognition as a concert piece, and is widely considered to be one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century.
The reader is moved, even to tears, by these rites of passage among characters we have lived with long enough to feel as family.
Step by step, she said, students learn to write dialogue, descriptive paragraphs, visual passages and character sketches so that by the end of the semester, they will be able to write a "substantial story".
Learning to read maps properly, it argues, is an important rite of passage, developing character and encouraging independence.
In another passage, a character experiments "with five-minute catnaps every few minutes, fearing he would otherwise sleep through the resurrection of the Antichrist".
Judah Halevi (ca. 1075 1141) discuses skepticism briefly in his Kuzari I.4 8; in this passage, a character in the poem professes skepticism about religious truths, and presents his requirements for what would count as knowledge.
I did this because I wanted to create a tight emotional connection between my protagonist, a young woman named Jordan, and my readers, while still having the literary freedom to write lush descriptive passages of other characters and the setting (San Francisco and Nepal, in this case).
Some of the strongest passages feature minor characters.
