Personal Narrative: Her Belief In God

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Her belief in god is that he did this for a reason and he took her things as a sign. She believes that all of her things belonged to god anyways and he was just collecting them “it was his own, it was not mine” line 17. Her attitude was sad in the beggining but then she became positive when she started to think about why it happened. She needed something to fall back on because she has nothing and she is using religion as her fall back. She jumps from being positive to being sad she doesn't really know what to think of the situation. “It was his own, it was not mine” She said this in line 17 then in line 24-26 she says this” Where oft i sat and long did lie: here stood that truck, and that there chest There lay the store i counted best” She

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