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Throughout many novels, the main character usually learns something towards the end of the book. In Bread Givers, Sara realized what was left of her fathers life and that she needed to take care of him while she could. Also she realized that the problem of father was still not solved. At the very end of the book, Sara realizes that father did have a good influence on her life and not only will he stay with her but everything that he taught or gave her will be with her also. Even though she realizes this later in the book, it still makes readers notice the kind of person she is and what she cares about. This was an interesting ending and also a good one because of the way it wrapped things up.
At the end of the book Sara learned how her father was weak and helpless without anyone to help him and take care of his needs. She realizes that everyone one around her has changed except her father who was still clinging for others to help him. All that he had accomplished was his great devotion to his tradition. She realized that with no one to help him he would die and she is the only one who can keep him alive though it would be a costly decision because she would lose her home and her life to him. Throughout her life she was always looking to have freedom and independence and be self-suffient and despite her job, her life, the many gains that she had accomplished for herself, her struggle for independence is not over. Her father, who was strong, had become weak, and regardless of the life Sara had tried to look for, her expectation has pushed him into taking him into her home. Although her father had always taken her liberty she still feels tied to her family. Her decision to get an education separated her from her family, and the sadness she had from her mother’s death had caused her to promise to take care of her father. Despite his criticism to her Sara knows that her father is an old, lonely man whose life is beginning to end. Sara wants to keep Reb alive, but to do that she would have to bring him into house and she fears that would bring back him to overpower her as he did to her. Even though she has a choice to make she feels her devotion to father as the most important choice.
In the last two pages of the novel "Bread Givers" we learn that Sara's conflict with her father's traditional views is still unsolved. We especially see this in Sara's last line in the novel. Despite how successful she has been in making her life in the new world, when her father is sick and weak at the end she allows father to live in her home. She does this because she feel as though it is her responsibility to take care of her father, just like all of the generations before her did for their fathers because it is a tradition. She is on the border line of the old and the new world because as much as she desires to live in the new world, she is still part of the old world because of her father. However, due to her desire to live in the new world, I feel that she thinks she will be the last generation in her family to carry on the tradition of the old world.
sara means even though her father does not treat her with the same respect as she treats him they are the same blood and should take care of eachother no matter what the conditions are. she says she has his family weight on her back well thats coming from the nickname blood and iron meaning she will always be the suporter of the family taking care of everyone
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