Are You Wear Pink Ribbons

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Are you wearing your pink ribbons? I believe this is the question that sums up the whole story. This story is an epic tale of a man loosing his beliefs.

The main passages that I have chosen, the first and last one. In a very quick fashion, it shows a man that knows he has what he needs in the world. He has a beautiful wife wearing her pink ribbons that show so much that is going to happen in the story.

Later in the story it talks of him going into the woods and he doesn't know if it is a dream or not. Shadows all around him. Dark figures lurking, it shows that he is slipping into darkness and sin.

He sees his wife participation, and is very upset by it. He finds the pink ribbons symbolizing that he has lost his "faith" and she has lost

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