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Agnes 'Execution In Burial Rites'
Agnes' execution is used as a vessel to influence the main characters in 'Burial Rites', to push their personal life purpose into action and remind themselves what their striving for. Characters in the novel are simple, considering our standards; we struggle to find a greater meaning to their lives. It is difficult to grasp their lives, but we can observe the relationships between these characters, in their hardships we find that we are able to relate. Readers will find that Agnes begins to intertwine herself in the lives of others, influencing them and challenging their process of thinking, and sharing similar fates with some.

Toti spares the time to lend his words to Agnes, but reaches the onset of a relationship; in time he realizes
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