Dissimilar Setting Of The Story 'The Leaving'

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The leaving #2 Amisha Grewal 9ta
In the story ‘The Leaving’ there is a dissimilar setting, the sixties. it shows us how it is like to be less fourtanest and what the time period was like. Sylvie’s father Lester is an example of how men trated women, their wives and daughters would do their hard work for them. There was a part in the story whe Sylvie asked her mother ‘how come they couldna wshed dishes themselves?....we always do their work for them, how come we gotta clean up there mess’ her mother then replied with ‘its my falut that I raised boys like they were little men.’ That subject appealed to me because here in this century, men are too be different more independent. The setting of this story created the charaters because how the

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