Sacrifice Character Analysis

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Sacrifice of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

To quote A.P.J. Abdul Kalam “Let us Sacrifice our today, so that our children may have a better tomorrow”. Throughout human history people have had to make decisions for their family, some that were trivial and some that would affect how the family operated until it ceased to exist. Sacrifices that were made by characters such as Mariam and Laila in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Dora in Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful were sacrifices of intangible things that are of great importance such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all of the characters sacrificed for one thing, the good of their family. Throughout Hosseini’s novel the reader sees many people sacrifice their lives, but there is one sacrifice that should stand out from all others due to the fact
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When Dora decided to sacrifice everything she had ever known in the scene where dora got onto the train with her family, she demonstrates supreme bravery. The sacrifice that she made that day not only affects her, but it affected what Guido does whilst he is in the concentration camp. When Dora was asked by the military officer if she was sure she wants to board the train, Dora did what Mariam did when Laila tried to convince Mariam to join her when Mariam was telling Laila to flee, she was sacrificing everything to help those that mean everything. Dora also makes another enormous sacrifice that can also be seen in A Thousand Splendid Suns, when Dora sacrificed her chance to live a luxurious life married to a wealthy man she also sacrificed her reputation, this is similar to what happened in relation to Nana and Mariam, where Nana “could have given her away, or tossed her in a ditch somewhere and run”, but Nana sacrificed her reputation and life as she knew it for something that she would always love