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Unvanquished The Sheepdog Analysis

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Part One: Passage 1 The image that is seen in this passage is that of the trunk. In the novel Unvanquished, the trunk is an image of many different things; including greed, family, tradition, southern values, and class. In their own way, these are all themes of the book. Greed is shown when Granny and Ringo start essentially stealing from the army by writing fake letters from the general to collect horses and then selling them back to the armies at high prices. Initially what they were given was more than what was taken from them, but because they got greedy, they started this black market business and it eventually ended up getting them into trouble. The trunk plays a large part in this because initially it was the trunk that was stolen that Granny demanded to have returned in the …show more content…

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