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    Nancy Springer successfully engages readers in her novel "Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess" through the intriguing protagonist Enola Holmes. When Enola's mother disappears, she sets off on a journey to find her, facing many dangers and overcoming adversity, including escaping from kidnappers and challenging gender restrictions of the time. Springer uses literary devices like suspense, personification, and similes to highlight Enola's challenges and keep readers interested in her story. Overall, it is Enola's resilience in the face of obstacles that makes her a captivating character and draws readers into the novel.

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    Nancy Springer successfully engages readers in her novel "Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess" through the intriguing protagonist Enola Holmes. When Enola's mother disappears, she sets off on a journey to find her, facing many dangers and overcoming adversity, including escaping from kidnappers and challenging gender restrictions of the time. Springer uses literary devices like suspense, personification, and similes to highlight Enola's challenges and keep readers interested in her story. Overall, it is Enola's resilience in the face of obstacles that makes her a captivating character and draws readers into the novel.

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    Nancy Springer successfully engages readers in her novel "Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess" through the intriguing protagonist Enola Holmes. When Enola's mother disappears, she sets off on a journey to find her, facing many dangers and overcoming adversity, including escaping from kidnappers and challenging gender restrictions of the time. Springer uses literary devices like suspense, personification, and similes to highlight Enola's challenges and keep readers interested in her story. Overall, it is Enola's resilience in the face of obstacles that makes her a captivating character and draws readers into the novel.

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    Enola Holmes Final

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    Nancy Springer successfully engages readers in her novel "Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess" through the intriguing protagonist Enola Holmes. When Enola's mother disappears, she sets off on a journey to find her, facing many dangers and overcoming adversity, including escaping from kidnappers and challenging gender restrictions of the time. Springer uses literary devices like suspense, personification, and similes to highlight Enola's challenges and keep readers interested in her story. Overall, it is Enola's resilience in the face of obstacles that makes her a captivating character and draws readers into the novel.

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    When Enola’s mother vanishes and fails to come back, she is compelled to inform her two older

    brothers – Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes. Mycroft is taken aback by the condition of the property
    and decides to send Enola to a boarding school; however, she has different plans and escapes in
    search of her mother. During her journey, she is intrigued by another individual, prompting her to
    undertake an inquiry. Nancy Springer has successfully engaged her audience in the novel Enola
    Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess through the use of captivating protagonist that over
    comes her adversities. Enola Holmes engages the reader throughout the book by outsmarting her
    brothers and escaping from dangerous situations.

    Springer keeps the reader in suspense by Enola overcoming her adversity’s when stuck in dangerous
    situations. The protagonist, Enola Holmes is stuck in many life threating dilemmas that she
    perseveres through, determined to complete her goals. An example of this is highlighted by the
    quote; “Girls hereabouts mostly don’t have shilling for coresets. I’ve sliced a few bellies wide open in
    my time. Don’t cross me again.” (Springer, 2007, p. 158) Developing this further is the use of
    personification such as “his tone menaced like a knife blade” (Springer, 2007, p. 159) This kind of
    situation keeps the reader in suspense of if Enola can successfully escape alive. The use of suspense,
    therefore makes the novel for intriguing as it heightens the tensions and creates concern for Enola.

    Springer engrosses the reader by allowing Enola to outsmart and overcome her brothers who
    continuously call her unintelligent. By outwitting her bothers, it shows that Enola doesn’t allow the
    boundaries of time to confine her. This is made clear by the quote “I know you think it is a great
    blow to my pride, that both my mother and my sister have gone missing, I cannot find a trace of the
    former and I have you to thank for the information.” (Springer, 2007, p. 198) In addition, is the use
    of similes such as the quote “Not nearly as fervidly as I wish you would assign more officers to find
    my sister.” My brothers voice while in tune sounded as taut as a violin string.” (Springer, 2007, p.
    198) This quote helps the reader understand the difficulty Sherlock is having on finding Enola. Enola
    overcoming her adversities by ignoring the restrictions laid upon her based on her gender therefore,
    engages and entertains the reader as a young girl such as Enola is outsmarting one of the best
    detectives.

    Through the portrayal of Enola’s adversities, Nancy Springer successfully succeeds on engaging the
    readers in her novel Enola Holmes. Each adversity, from escaping a kidnapping, to escaping gender
    restrictions, builds suspense and tension in the reader. By utilizing various literary devices to
    highlight these adversities, Springer includes rebellion and resilience in her characters throughout
    the novel. Overall, it is through these adversities that Springer captivates the reader with the
    intriguing protagonist, Enola Holmes, as she journeys through London to achieve her goals.

    References
    Springer, N. (2007). Enola Holmes : The Case of the Missing Marquess . Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.

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