Examples Of Sacrifice In The Ocean At The End Of The Lane By Neil Gaiman

Sacrifice better the lives of oneself and others, some made by the person themselves to allow someone important to have the ability to succeed in their life. Whether the sacrifice made contributes largely or smally in one's general life the act of sacrifice itself, allows others to achieve a desire. In the novel The Ocean at the End of The Lane, Neil Gaiman depicts sacrifice consistently and how it has benefited characters, and also progresses the plot in a way many other stories cannot. Lettie and the Narrator have both been met with the choice of sacrifice numerous times and constantly made those sacrifices to better their own, and each others lives. In The Ocean at the End of The Lane, when conflicted with sacrifice the narrator makes the decision to better the lives of the Hempstock family

The narrator in The Ocean at The End of The Lane, a young male who loved life, always seen immersing himself into book to further his knowledge and greaten his character, sacrificed himself for the better of the commonwealth. When met with the choice of life or death, the narrator chooses death due to guilt for what he has made happen, sacrificing himself to the vicious hunger birds so the world can live on promptly. The thriving decision the narrator made when thinking of the world and hunger birds: “ The hunger birds would-no, they were- ripping the world away, tearing it into nothing. Soon enough there would be no world. My mother, my father my sister, my house... - because of me, all things would be gone, and there would be nothing in their place… I did not want to die at all understand that. But I could not let everything be destroyed when I had it in my power to stop the destruction” (156). The narrator thoughts depict him as having guilt, as he claims responsibility for