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The world of today is extremely harsh. As it continues to grow it is becoming increasingly more difficult to live in. It is becoming a place where survival is very impor- tant and it has become the main focus of people’s lives. People have discovered many ways of coping in today’s cruel world and have developed new ideas of dealing with the issues that they face in their everyday lives. In Janet Fitch’s novel, White Oleander, she creates characters who demonstrate the many ways that people survive today. Some choose to survive by lashing out on others, taking their anger and pain out on people who do not deserve it. Others choose to change their personality or appear- ance to create a new form of themselves, one who can cope with the troubles that they are facing. Some people need to feel superior over others in order to survive. Others have to hit bottom before they realize how to survive or even that they want to survive. And there are some individuals who