ENGL 2593 Chapter : ENGL 2593 01 Paper 12
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Major characters in these stories are all escaping from something in the past. Every person in the world has a past, some might want to forget. The main characters attempt to out run their past and some succeed. Barkley are two snowbirds spending a part of their year in the desert. I think that oscar is the main character that tries to escape his past because he the one who"s idea it was to go to the desert in the first place. He wants to go to a place completely different than their home in illinois. He worked a boring and dreary job as a mailman for years. When he finds the jar and discovers that it is valuable, he thinks it will make his life much easier. He said that he was tired of saving all the time so that they wouldn"t run out on money by the time they died.
