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          Emily Heiderberg never imagined anything bad would happen to her. In the novel, Begotten by W. James Richardson, she will learn to be forgiving and she teaches the people nigh her the same thing. There are many stories involved and they all started with the tragic incident that happened to Emily when she was at a family outing. An unforseen incident that would change the lives of the Heiderberg family, as well as the whole town of Detroit.     Certainly this book is written for adults. The authour uses profanity and racial remarks, but it is necessary to tell the story in that manner. The bad language utilise by the characters shows their hate and anger, but also shows that some are willing to change their ways.     Richardsons method of writing is kind of hard to comprehend at first. all chapter would start off with a new character narrarating their story. You dont know who it is until a fe w sentences later. The chapter starts with a character, but some chapters would have two or trine nararators with a couple splits each character. Sometimes it would be confusing, but once I found out who was talking, I would sometimes have to reread the paragraph from the start to understand the situatiuon. Another thing that bothered, maybe it wasnt the authours fault, was that many quotation marks were misplaced all over the book. the first few were tolerable, but later on a while it got annoying. That bothered me much and like I said, Im not sure if it was the condition or the publisher. I dont really like the style, but its what the author used to get many stories into one.      One of the many stories in the book involves Emily Heiderberg. Misbegotten means unlawfully conceived, so it wouldnt be right to say that Emily is an outstanding character in this book. Emily is a teenage girl with a bright future, but the things that happen to her dims that futu re. During the book she tries to overcome her fears and to become herself again. Her rape causes all certain(p) problems to arise.     Another character that is important is Hugo Heiderberg. He grew up hating all people that werent with the idea of whites being the supreme race. He is retired Detroit police officer and a fraction of the Euro-Brothers Defense Society. He was part of the "Dirty Dozen", a groups of cops that were on trial for beating a black man.