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WHY BE HAPPY, WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL? Jeanette Winterson Author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS DEDICATION The dedication at the beginning of the book is for the novelist’s three mothers: her biological mother, her adoptive mother and her literary mother. Ruth Rendell is an English writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries. The novelist says “Ruth has known me since I was twenty-six, and she lent me a cottage to write in when I was trying to make my way. She had been the Good Mother – never judging, quietly supporting, letting me talk, letting me be”. The novelist starts her book with a dedication to thank the women who contributed to her life, education and literary base. “To my three mothers: Constance Winterson, Ruth Rendell, Ann S.” INTRODUCTION written in Great Britain, 2011 published by Vintage, 2011 and 2012 CONTENTS: Jeanette Winterson’s memories The writer’s explanation based on the novel “Oranges are not the only fruit” TITLE“WHY BE HAPPY, WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?” HAPPY: is a way to live life; everyone of the world try to reach this way of being. NORMAL: a different way of living. Normality coincides with masses. The intelligent reader from the title normally expects something. In this case he/she could expect a strange situation developed during the whole book, connected through the chapters. STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE NOVEL The book is defined from the novelist a memoir: it is a literary genre different from an autobiography because in the memoir the writer focuses the attention on her personality; instead of her story as it happens in the autobiography. In the memoir the chronological sequence of events is not the most important element because memoir is principally based on emotions and feelings. The novel is organized into 15 connected chapters, each having an own title and a particular function in the story: each one describe a period or a fact of the novelist’s life, ev