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'''''The Tenth Circle''''' (2006) is a novel by [[Jodi Picoult]] about [[date rape]], father/daughter relationships and has several references to [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]''. |
'''''The Tenth Circle''''' (2006) is a novel by [[Jodi Picoult]] about [[date rape]], father/daughter relationships and has several references to [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]''. |
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=Plot Summary= |
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At a party with her friends, a girl exposes herself to an ex-boyfriend. She is raped and presses charges. Many thinks she is lying, but she just ends up being accused of Jason's recent death (self-sacrifice). Although it was really almost a team effort from both the father and mother, she is still blamed. Embaressed and shamed, she runs away to her father's old Yu'pik region. (his childhood home). She finds a boy who truly loves her and plans to live her life that way unti she is found by her parents and all return home and things almost go back to normal. It is a happy ending. This story is parallel with Dante's Inferno because the father of the girl thinks of himself as the main character in that goes through all layers of hell. In the end however, even if he is a "monster", his daughter still sees him as himself and loves him reguardless. |
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When freshman Trixie Stone accuses her ex-boyfriend Jason Underhill of [[raping]] her, everyone is quick to take his side when he claims their intercourse was consensual. Trixie's parents, Daniel, a mild mannered comic book artist from a harsh background, and Laura, a college professor sleeping with one of her students, become involved, and Jason, whose life is supposedly ruined, leaps from a bridge. Although first presumed to be suicide, Trixie is suspected of pushing him, and so she flees to the [[Yup'ik]] region of Alaska where her father grew up, and Daniel and Laura follow. |
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At the end of the book, Laura confesses to Daniel that she was there when Jason died. Jason (who was drunk) came lunging at her because he thought she was Trixie. Laura pushed him off the bridge but he held on. Laura reached to his hand but then let go, thus revealing that Trixie is innocent but shows Laura is not. The book concludes with Daniel's comic plot showing a father reunited with his daughter after saving her from hell, which in some ways parallels Daniel's own life. |
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The main plot and subplots are juxtaposed throughout the book with Daniel's latest comic, ''The Tenth Circle''. The title ''The Tenth Circle'' is a reference to the first canticle, ''Inferno'', of ''The Divine Comedy'' by [[Dante Alighieri]]. |
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The book was made into a [[Lifetime Network]] [[movie of the week]] which premiered June 28, 2008 at 9pm Eastern, and starred [[Kelly Preston]] as Laura, [[Ron Eldard]] as Daniel, Haley Beauchamp as Zephyr, [[Jamie Johnston]] as Jason, Geordie Brown as Moss, and [[Brittany Robertson]] as Trixie, from [[Sony Pictures Television]]. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 17:29, 9 July 2011
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| Author | Jodi Picoult |
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| Illustrator | Dustin Weaver |
| Cover artist | Zoё Sadokierski |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Family saga |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Publication date | 17 March 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 387 pp |
| ISBN | 1-74114-693-3 |
| OCLC | 224803646 |
The Tenth Circle (2006) is a novel by Jodi Picoult about date rape, father/daughter relationships and has several references to Dante's Inferno.
Plot Summary
At a party with her friends, a girl exposes herself to an ex-boyfriend. She is raped and presses charges. Many thinks she is lying, but she just ends up being accused of Jason's recent death (self-sacrifice). Although it was really almost a team effort from both the father and mother, she is still blamed. Embaressed and shamed, she runs away to her father's old Yu'pik region. (his childhood home). She finds a boy who truly loves her and plans to live her life that way unti she is found by her parents and all return home and things almost go back to normal. It is a happy ending. This story is parallel with Dante's Inferno because the father of the girl thinks of himself as the main character in that goes through all layers of hell. In the end however, even if he is a "monster", his daughter still sees him as himself and loves him reguardless.
