A Single Shard And Orphan's Lonely Beginnings

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A single shard and “Orphan’s lonely beginnings” are two literature texts regarding orphans. A single shard is a fictional story about Tree-ear a Korean orphan of the twelfth century, while “An Orphan’s lonely beginnings” is a non-fiction article about Ruckel a modern-day Romanian orphan. Because Tree-ear and Ruckel were both orphans in different time periods, their lives unraveled in similar and diverse ways.
Tree-ear and Ruckel may have lived in separate time periods, but they did have some things in common. Unlike most people of their time, Tree-ear and Ruckel are both orphans. Furthermore, since Tree-ear and Ruckel are both orphans, they both need parental figures. According to “Orphan’s lonely beginnings,” “Parents do a lot more than make

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