'Civil Peace': A Character Analysis

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Unit 4 Assessment To be happy in life, you must learn the difference between what you want versus need. If you learn that then you will be able to choose what you want and need. You don’t need materialistic items to be socially accepted. Having more than you need can either ruin your life or make it better. It can also make you greedy and selfish.
Sometimes we think we need something but in reality we don’t. Having more than we need can give us anxiety and cause us stress. In the short story “Civil Peace”, a man turned in a pile of money and got a reward. Instead of feeling happy and excited about it, he got nervous he was going to get robbed. Nevertheless, he was living fine without the reward, but now that he has it his life has become more

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