Jig's Views On Abortion

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Jig is tired of being restrain from the American. She does not think abortion is an ideally natural and simple solution to their problem because this method is inhuman. Jig believes that the unborn baby can lead her and the American to the lives of better meaning, lives that are productive and restful. Abortion to her means that she has to give up her hope on the child, her own self-respect and to agree what the American always wants. When the American states, “What did you say?” after Jig ambitiously mentions that they can “have everything” and every day they “make it more impossible” (text book 231). The American pays no attention to her. In that moment, she finally realizes their relationship has no opportunity to grow and he is not the

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