"Rubyfruit Jungle"

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This paper analyzes the novel "Rubyfruit Jungle" by Rita Mae Brown about a young girl who is open about the fact that she is a lesbian. It concentrates on the character of Molly, the heroine of the novel and how Molly's parents struggle for a better life for their daughter and how Molly wants the same, but she has her own ways of achieving this goal. It also provides a biography of the life and works of the author and discusses the challenges she had to meet and the obstacles she surmounted in order to achieve something in her life. It shows how the main theme of this book reveals to the audience belonging to all casts, races or sex, that it is completely unfair to criticize or hold a person from achieving anything in life primarily on accounts of him/her being different from the others.

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"Born on November 28, 1944 in a town called Hanover in Pennsylvania, Rita Mae Brown is a many woman in one. She is an accredited novelist, poetess, feminist, humorist, nuclear activist, social activist, screenwriter, animal lover and a farmer. She was one of the anterior members of the National Organization for Women. She later resigned from the organization when the other members tried to subdue her position, the reason being that she was a lesbian."

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