Brief Summary Of The Story 'Departure'

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In the story "Departure" the narrator describes two diffrent characters that have similar and diffrent meanings such as a diffrence would be that on is leaving and the other is coming back from home and to home. The story "Departure" is about a character namd Gorge Willard leaving his home to start a new life, having many emotions all at once surprised the man that there was many people tlling him advices about what to exspect when he is out there in the world, filled with joy and sadness he can't discribe how he feels. in the story "Up the Coolly" he discribes a man who is returning home after doing what he dreamed until coming back to his house where he grew up in his brother doesn't like what he had become which was wealthy and succsessful,

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