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Partially due to there close proximity, Anne connects to the Van Daans, as she is starved for human interaction outside her family. The Van Daans will ocasionally invite her over for dinner and at the end of the book she ends up developing a romantic relationship with Peter who she visits most nights, where they talk for hours on end.
C. Poe wanted to challenge social conformity and change the outlook on how people reacted to certain events. If you look a lot of his writing was dark and often gruesome. Do to this he was able to change the way writers transitioned their work, he also help classify the first detective workings as well as begin the science fiction genre.
the author's purpose and what genre it is
