Charles Foster Kane's Last Word 'Rosebud'

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Citizen Kane is a film by Orson Welles. It’s a classic film from 1941 and it still holds up today. It holds up today for its evaluation of what is the value in a mans life. The film holds up because it tells the story of a wealthy man who lives whole life unhappy because he is searching for a time that was much simpler. The film teaches people that all the money in the world can not buy happiness. The whole film is people trying to understand the main character Charles Foster Kane’s last word “Rosebud”. The word “Rosebud” refers to Charles Foster Kane’s childhood sled. This sled represent’s Kane’s youth and innocence. At a young age Charles Foster Kane is uprooted from his life of being a young boy in poor family and is taken in by a wealthy

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