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Analysis Of Gift From The Sea By Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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In Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Anne depicts her experiences during her vacation on a beach. She uses aspects of the beach as metaphors that relates back to humanity. These personifications can also be related to similarities between humans and the environment. Throughout the book, there are lessons to be learned from the sea, which are essentially the “gifts” from the sea. The narrator uses shells or different features of the beach to describe how humans can learn from the sea and how the relationship between humans and nature has changed. At the beginning of Anne’s story, she says “The sea does not reward those who are too anxious…”. She writes that the sea teaches patience, which is not a characteristic that humanity acquires

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