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The Leaving Budge Wilson Analysis

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Being ordered around and told how to live life is not an ideal lifestyle to have. However, many women around the world are forced to live this way. In Budge Wilson’s “The Leaving”, the female characters, Sylvie and Ma, abandon the family farm for 3 days in Halifax, that will alter the rest of their lives. Meanwhile the article, “Same Story, Different Ending” describes Aqsa Parvez and Anila Batool’s battle against their honor bond families. Sylvie, Ma, Aqsa, and Anila all lead very similar lives. Growing up in a household where they have to follow rules and rebelling against them.

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