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Saturday By Ian Mcewan
In my introductory essay to Saturday, by Ian McEwan, my written piece called Nature, Nurture and Nine eleven, attempted to explore the themes of a the main characters (Perowne and Baxter) in a post nine eleven world. I also dessicated the ‘nature vs nurture’ theory and what makes people turn into what they are under the shadow of a darwinian themes that McIwan alludes to. I believe that my paper raised interesting ideas and am happy with the points that I raised. However, the downfall of my writing in this case was my faulty MLA editing. I had forgotten to explore my hypothesis in the very beginning of my essay and left it to the last paragraph instead. I had not included any citations thinking that the word limit did not allow any to be
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