The Cranes By Peter Meinke Analysis

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The True Love
Have you ever had a true love in your life? Love without benefits, pure love. In the story
“The Cranes” by Peter Meinke described the true love between two couples lived their life together and died together, two people who faced all the problems together by their love. The whooping cranes are rare birds. We see the writer comparing the similarity between these two birds and the couple (husband and wife). Words cannot describe their love. In these days only a few of the couples have a very strong love in their life and get older together, the husband and wife were worried about the change in the world, and how that will effect on the new generation
(her children); their love was bigger than anything in this world that cause them to separate from
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In this sentence, it is mean that they used a gun to suicide. Third, when he kissed her for the last time. As the writer Meinke mentioned, “He leaned over and kissed her, barely touching her lips” (279). This is showing us the moment farewell including. Finally, when the couple of birds vanished that mean the husband and wife are also vanished from this world.
Each person in this life trying to fall in love with someone, some people finds the love, some trying to find it, and some die without falling in love. In the story “The Cranes” by
Peter Meinke explained the true love between two people, who faced all the problems together and never gave up. The writer Meinke compared the husband and wife with a couple of rare birds. The husband and wife decided to leave their life and commit suicide. The couple did not want to have this moment when someone of them will pass away, so they decided to die together. We do not see many people do that, and that is why the writer meant to compare the couple with the rare birds because their love is very strong and pure. They sacrificed their souls for their love. Have you ever thought about that with your

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