Rachel Donadio writes: “'The Story of the Night' by Elie Wiesel was rejected by fifteen publishers, before being purchased by the small firm Hill & Wang and turned out to be the phenomenon editorial. It led to the creation of a genre. The writer becomes an American icon and achieves worldwide fame. It is estimated that 10 million copies have been sold” (20-1-2008). As a matter of fact, writing quality is not the only variable for rejection. Maybe your book isn't a good fit for the publisher, or the agent is looking for something "different," or your work has simply been misunderstood. Yet, whatever the reason, those rejection letters still sting. Gary Smailes writes: “CS Lewis received over 800 rejections before selling a single piece of writing. Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was rejected by 25 publishers; Jonathan Livingston Seagull was rejected 40 times; Louis L'Amour was rejected more than 200 times before selling his writings. The San Francisco Examiner rejected Rudyard Kipling's thesis in 1889 with the note "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you don't know how to use the English language"; George Orwell's Animal Farm was rejected with the comment 'It is impossible to sell animal stories in the United States'” (11 Famous, November 18, 2011). The tenant of Wildfell Hall also goes through the same rejection process. After The Tenant was first released, political leaders, think-tanks, church disciplinarians and law keepers of the time must have spent countless sleepless nights, thinking about how to control the "threat" of an awakening woman. , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was treated coldly by many critics of the time and even by Sister Charlotte herself. It was a cold act… middle of paper… arrest” (Misner: 38) as it was considered the evil (negative) force not good for the health of society. He was declared highly suspected of heresy. Religious figures also believed that the planet Earth was stationary and that the Sun revolved around it. For many, many years this has been their position. They cultivated, supported and practiced based on that belief. But an era was heralded in which the glory of modern science began to be recognized. Scientists, using telescopes, began to explore the cosmos. And what would follow next? The old and solid belief shattered and fell to the ground and Galileo's theorem was proven right. Now, who cultivated vampirism all those years? Galileo or the society that tortured him mentally and physically? So a vampire doesn't necessarily have to be a solitary figure. Society as a whole can be a giant, dark vampire.
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