Analyzing Marina Short Story 'The Kiss'

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Marina short story lesson learned is about not forgetting where you came from or where you where raised because culture and gender is very important in people life. Also a good point of view learned is not to feel left down or strange about the culture, customs or genders you represent. Along the story Marina lesson learned by struggling at the rio or how to handle fragile things help her overcome and understand the new women in a different culture that she was accustom and don’t judge others because of that . “A new place to begin our search for the meaning of the word woman” she states this because they learned a new meaning of the word woman in a different cultural way of defining woman. In the short story The Kiss I can relate myself with

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