To kill does not only mean to take ones life, but instead it also carries the meaning of ending an important factor in ones life. Killing also has a lot of other meanings, but the main factor of killing leads to death there are many more the author Adele Wiseman displays the many different aspects to kill in the novel The Sacrifice, by dealing with a lot of situations that would kill an individuals heart. (I.e. Loss of a loved one, etc.) The ways to kill an individual portrayed in the novel are removal from religious beliefs, Racism to the two brothers, and the death of Laiah. Two of these points deal with death itself, but the other results in the killing of the families beliefs and way of living.
The family way forced to give up their religious beliefs and convert to another faith. This had a strong ef
Lastly the death of Laiah, this last point distinctively portrays to the reader the actually definition of killing. Which is to take the life of an individual. That is exactly what Abraham does, he literally butchers the girl. This is done in a way unlike the rest because the Author wants to show the reader that to all the many ways to kill an individual you cannot leave out the main factor of the actually deed of death, which was granted upon Laiah.
Racism, another important factor in the novel, which lead to the actual aspect of death. This was portrayed at the start of the novel when it talks about how Abraham's two sons got hung in the Town Square for the same fact of being a different race/religion. This was hard for that family to deal with and for a long while it was also killing the family members inside to know that they had loss
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