Permanence is like when you draw a picture and want it to always stay the same, even if you go away and come back later. It's like wanting something to be permanent, or forever. In a novel, permanence means that the story, the characters, and the events are going to stay the same and not change. It's like when you read a book and the story is always the same every time you read it. The words might be different, but the story stays permanent. Just like a drawing you want to keep forever, a novel has permanence because you can always go back and read it again and again, without it changing.