What central idea do these excerpts work together to develop? Alvarez grappled with the issue of writing a novel about a dangero
us subject. Alvarez learned about a terrible murder and decided to write a fictional retelling of it. Alvarez decided to publish her novel without regard for her mother’s feelings. Alvarez faced one of the biggest challenges of being a writer: choosing a topic.
Shakespeare used stories from older books of all sorts for his non-historical plays. He borrowed from Latin and Greek authors as well as adapting stories from elsewhere in Europe. Hamlet is borrowed from an old Scandinavian tale, but Romeo and Juliet comes from an Italian writer writing at the same time as Shakespeare.
