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Loyalty In 'Elle's Suppellait Sarah'
In Elle S’appellait Sarah, the loyalty of certain characters affects the outcome of the story. The book shows the lies, the betrayal, the pain, the happiness, the coming together of a family that is caused by loyalty. Sarah, Edouard, Jules and Genvieve are three of the characters whose loyalty had a huge impact on their lives and their families. They kept secrets and unveiled secrets, this either had a positive or negative effect on them but at the end things came together or in Sarah’s case it caused death and grief.
Sarah’s loyalty to her family played huge part in what caused her to commit suicide. Sarah had always been loyal to her family, whether that family was her biological family or Jules and Genvieve, who kept her safe all those years. The story started off with Sarah locking up her brother in the cupboard, but she did so because she thought that she would be back in a few days. Her loyalty to her brother caused him to die, and ever since then his death had a negative effect on her life. When Genvieve and …show more content…
Gules and Genvieve kept Sarah safe for years, they changed her identity, and they made sure that she was raised well. They never gave up on her, they tried their best to make her life happy and make her forget about her past. They loved her like one of their own, they tried to give her love but she had a shield and she never fully accepted their love. She knew that they loved her, but her guilt caused her to shut them out at times. Gules and Genvieve knew that by keeping Sarah they were putting their lives in danger but they kept her anyway because they had a good heart and they knew that it was the right thing to do. If they weren’t loyal to Sarah she would’ve been back at the camp and dead. Gules and Genvieve saved Sarah’s life in
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