The novel, "The Cider House Rules", written by John Irving, can be said to be an excellent source of thought-provoking ideas. Some interesting quotations and facts derived from this novel are presented below along with their importance. Firstly, the name of one of the main characters, Homer Wells, seems to portray the plot of the book. Homer, who is an orphan and is expected to be adopted one day, ends up making the orphanage his …showed first 75 words of 665 total…

…showed last 75 words of 665 total…the novel. It states how there are mistakes in history that are undetected, even though they may be small, there is a chance that these mistakes could be repeated, especially since the consequences of these mistakes are also undetected. John Irving, the author of the book, has inserted messages and lessons to learn from in this novel. It is hoped that most of these messages in the first part of the novel were illuminated above.