One Flew's Cry Character Analysis

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Love is an emotion of strong attraction and personal attachment toward someone thus, it’s challenging to overcome the feeling when you are isolated from the loved ones. However, the main characters, Sheila and Mr. Sikirski in “The Curlew’s Cry,” have benn living their life detached from their adored ones keeping their cold hearts inside them quietly. Throughout the story the author, J. Leslie Bell has outlined two characters in certain characteristics. Sheila and Mr. Sikirski have opposite personalities but they are both loving and caring as well.
Sheila is a kind lady who just came to Canada by herself and is living her boring and solitary life. In the story she seems, she is not satisfied with her current lifestyle because every time she

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