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The book, The Lottery Rose, by Irene Hunt is a realistic fiction. It tells about an abused boy who does not trust anyone. But all that changes when he wins the rosebush. After he wins it he gets taken away from the abusive people to a better place where he very slowly learns to trust and finally to love. In, The Lottery Rose, there is one main character and two supporting characters. The main character is Georgie Burgess, a seven and a half year old boy who was abused for years by his mother’s boyfriend Steve. Georgie is very hateful, untrusting, and even mean at first, but after he gets to the children’s home, slowly, very slowly he begins to learn empathy for other people. One of the supporting characters was Sister Mary Angela, the head nun at the children’s house where Georgie stayed. She helped him learn to trust other people and make friends. It was her that started Georgie down the path of love. The other supporting character was Mrs. Harper, a pretty woman who lived across the street from the children’s house. At first she and Georgie didn’t like each other at all. But when she did begin to like Georgie, it was much faster than Georgie began to like her. The story is set in Tampa, Florida in the 1970s where Ge