Vaclav & Lena

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Yann Martel once said that “You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.” In this quote, Martel explains that not everything will go as we plan. No matter what happen in life, never give up and seek for success. Yann Martel quotes connect to the novel Vaclav & Lena by Haley Tanner. In the novel, the characters go through different circumstances in life, facing many tragedies and end with a happy ending.

The novel Lena and Vaclav demonstrate the life of two young children that immigrates from Russia. Living a different life but through friendship and love they gain the strength and go through the hardship of life. Tanner provide an example of the difficulty Lena face at a young age. Living under the same roof with her drug addict aunt who work at the club, yet most of the time she is being left alone. “Lena is sure that other people don't have many selves. She is terrified that she doesn't have a core self, an essential Lena. She feels that she used to but that she lost it along the way, that at some point it became buried, suffocated, and died, because when she looks beneath the chattering of the selves, nothing is there. Maybe the fractured feeling is taking hold because something is dead inside her or missing.” Living in the world without having memories of …show more content…

His parents shower him with love, care, and protection. He agrees with everything Lena said as long as she stay by his side as his assistant when he do magic. However one day just like magic, Lena vanished from his life. “Vaclav has said goodnight to Lena every night since the night she went away. Out loud. In a whisper...He filled the words with all his love and care and worry for Lena and launched them out to her, and like homing pigeons, he trusted them to find her.” Never stop thinking about his assistant, Lena. Begging his mom to tell him the reason of Lena

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