Both Ridjal Noor and Penelope Lively use a multitude of literary tools in order to portray the good and bad in people in their respective stories. Both 'Anil' and 'The Darkness Out There' act as a Bildungsroman - a story that walks the reader through the influential events in a person's life; through an external context, the reader sees the growth of the protagonist to maturity and how a change in experience induces an epiphany in them, which would affect their morality. This in turn shows how good
Family in Something Old, Something New and Anil In the two works, Something Old, Something New by Leila Aboulela and Anil by Ridjal Noor family plays an exceptionally important role, each demonstrates the tug between the desire to rely on and be true to the family and at the same time the desire to reject those things about family which are difficult to understand and love. In Anil the young child is both drawn to his mother and father as his protectors and afraid of them at the same time. He does