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Symbols In Saki's Toys Of Peace
In Saki’s “Toys of Peace” Harvey believes the experiment with the toys has begun too late because the boys had already formed their view and thoughts of toys from various influences of their education. Eric and Bertie had rich knowledge and deep interest about famous wars, which learned from books and school. The children had fastened the way they will look at things that formed by the knowledge that build by the long time. The boys viewed and claimed the random building as a historical war building, Bertie say that the municipal dust-pin as a fort and Eric said it as the palace of the Mpret of Albanina, which shows how they thought about things and accept it. Additionally, with the normal object the boys will think of violence thing, ““Are

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