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Heartache: Plot, Theme +more
Title: Heartache: Plot, Theme +more
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 756 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Heartache: Plot, Theme +more
A) The plot in “Heartache” is an important factor that helps contribute to the readers’ understanding of the story. This story is about a lonely man, Iona, who works as a cabby in the late 19th century. His loneliness is a result of his sons’ recent death and a lack of people to share his grief with, which results in pathos evoked from the reader. Throughout the story Iona picks up 4 passengers, and with each …showed first 75 words of 756 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 756 total…the story however, gives the best example of the lack of compassion demonstrated by Iona’s society. Through desperation, Iona tells all of his sorrow to his horse, because no one else would listen to him. This ending ultimately shows that the only member of Iona’s society that shows compassion is not even human. Therefore the two main themes of this story are loneliness and the lack of compassion shown by Iona’s society.
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