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Loyalty And Finding Happiness In The Happy Man's Shirt '

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In The Happy Man’s Shirt the theme is loyalty and finding happiness. Everyone wants each other to be happy. This is the theme because in the passage it states “Look for a happy man who’’s happy through and through, and exchange your son’s shirt for his.” (The Happy Man’s Shirt Page 1) Which basically is describing how the father wants the prince to be happy, but the prince also wants to father to be happy. Which when the prince told the father to find a happy man, his father set out a search all around the world in search of a happy man. Some more evidence from the passage that states this is the theme is that everyone was asking if the king was happy, so they kept searching for a happy man. “”A priest was taken to the king. “Are you happy?”

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