Zane Grey

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inner peace and
become one with nature. In the novel The Vanishing American Marian is an
eastern girl who moves out west to be with her true love Nophie. Nophie is
an Indian she met and fell in love with. At first Marian struggles with
the harsh conditions and hot weather. She almost gives up but continues to
push on. Gradually she becomes stronger and able to deal with the climate
and the problems nature throws at her. This gains her a lot of respect
from the westerners who had previously looked down on her. She receives a
new understanding on life and comes to be regarded as an equal.
At the turn of the century there was a revival of an interest in
nature, a period that Robert Nash characterized as the area of the
"wilderness cult". During this time Grey set his work to magic. Grey was
also a huge fan of nature and vividly used it to depict scenes in all of
his works. Known greatly for his love and curiosity with nature, Grey's
novels always contain a great ...

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then realizes what he must do
to solve the problem he has. He has conquered nature and thus gained inner
peace. Scenes like this are common in many of Grey's works.
This action packed scene is common to his work. As Russel Nye said
"action came first". Grey was not scared of the action scene and all the
classic conflicts were present in his work (Twentieth-Century Literary
Criticism 185). This was his way to keep the reader interested and wanting
more. However, while he liked action he shied away from violent scenes in
his novels. Grey seemed to relish violence very little and much of his
carnage took place off stage. Grey also introduced many rapes into his
work because he ...

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