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"Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews"

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In Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews, the third person perspective or POV centers on Dominika Egorova, a Russian girl who is worked in the ballerina show as a professional ballerina and then faced with the rigors of life when her father died when she was a teenager. After her father’s death, Dominika lives with his sick mother Nina Egorova who can only spend her days at home using a wheelchair as the exposition when the story began. One time, another misfortune happened to this ballerina's life. During the ballerina show where the bad luck happened, Dominika suffered a severe injury to its leg. Hospital results say that Dominica cannot be a ballerina anymore, an event that later changed the journey of Dominika’s life, this event is the starting point as the rising action or conflict began in the story and later follower by another conflict . After Dominika quit her job as Ballerina, Dominika stopped earning income from the ballerina stage which had been the source of her i...

“The Proxy Marriage by Maile Meloy”

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Originally published in the May 21, 2012 issue of The New Yorker. A young man and woman in Montana, each secretly attracted to the other, perform a series of proxy weddings for soldiers stationed in Iraq. The third person perspective or POV centers on William as the main character in this story. At the beginning of the story as the exposition Maile introduced the main characters they are William, piano player, undergraduate at Oberlin, composes music, in love with his best friend named Bridey. Bridey, studied musical theater in NYC to pursue career, unaware of William’s love towards her.  The Rising Action started when Bridey’s father who are a lawyer, started proxy marriage business at that time and ask his daughter and William to act as the proxies, both of them agree. William take this job seriously, he even imagine that the marriage is really for him and Bridey, meanwhile Bridey does not take this seriously, she just want to help her father’s business and get the m...