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The novels Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy and The Great Santini by Pat Conroy are different in terms of order and detail. It is from these events that the reader is able to see how the main character in each novel progresses with his growth, how he sees his life, ....

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.... flashbacks, and memories, all of the events of his life from when he was just a young boy all the way up to the present. " I betray the integrity of my family's history by turning everything, even sadness into romance. There is no romance in this story; just a story" (p.75). The narrator paints a very good picture for the reader and therefore gives the reader a good sense of Tom's difficult family life, and sees how it has made Tom into the man that he is (a loving father and husband). In the novel The Great Santini, Pat Conroy also uses first-person narration. Bull's son tells the story about how his father treats him and the rest of the f ....