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Throughout the two stories characters became disconnected from their community. Characters in both of the stories had loss of power and relationships between characters started to change. In “A west coast Woman’ by Jan Hopaklyissumqwa Gould, Mark becomes disconnected from his community and Sadie and her Grandfather’s relationships started to change. However, in “Incidents at the shrine” by Ben Okri, Anderson does not fit in is village and Anderson’s relationship with the people in his village changed. First of all, in A West Coast Women, mark became isolated from his community. His community did not respect the choices he made. After Mark decided to stay and work for Jensen’s company, his Grandfather and some people who were working for
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