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The Secret Life Of Alice Quotes Analysis

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This novel opened my eyes to the fact that life is full of hardships but we should always persevere because there is someone out there that needs us. All the character helped each other in this book. They didn’t have to help each other. They could have just looked out for themselves. But because they knew that there was someone that was counting on them. That someone needed them and that was their motivation to keep moving forward. “Was he going to shoot me? No, he had killed the Russian. He has saved me” (11). This quote comes from the very beginning of the book when Florian saves Emilia from a Russian soldier. She is alone and scared and the Russian is going to kill her just because he can and he wants her supplies. This starts their relationship …show more content…

I was hers” (301). This quote comes from when Emilia finally accepts her baby. She realized that now she was all this baby had. The child needed someone to protect, care for, and love her. She also realized that now this baby was a part of her. She wasn't alone anymore, now she had someone who needed her. I chose this quote because you see a big change in Emilia. She wanted to give up a lot in this book. She thought she was destined to die. However, once that baby was born she realized that she couldn’t give up. She finally had a motivation to keep going and protect this innocent child. Even though she doesn’t survive in the book she still puts her child before herself. She makes sure that Florian takes her baby on the lifeboat and the baby survives thanks to Emilia’s sacrifice “Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone else and realize that somehow you still have more to give” (315). This quote comes from the shoe poet. He says this when he is talking to Florian. Poet is trying to convince Florian to tell Joanna his feelings. Like Florian, Poet thought that he had no one and that he was useless to everyone and he just needed to survive the war and eventually die alone. But Poet finds Klaus and for a while is happy being “grandpa” and caring for

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