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Theme Of The Happy Man's Shirt

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In this Italian tale The Happy Man’s Shirt, the theme is you don 't need materials to be happy. In this tale a king tries to do everything in his power to make his son happy. When many philosophers tell the king his son will be happy if he finds a man that is already happy and takes the happy man 's shirt for his own son then his son will again be happy. “What on earth do you lack?” asked the king. “What’s wrong with you?” “I don’t even know myself, father.” (page 1) In this quote the king is asking the son what do you want that will make you happy but the son is trying to tell his dad that he has all the things he wants that is not what would make him happy, he is telling his dad materials don’t make him happy. The neighboring

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