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Often in literature, a character’s success in achieving goals depends on keeping a secret and divulging it only at the right moment. Choose one secret character keeps within the novel and examine that character’s choice to reveal or keep the secret. Explain how this choice contributes to the meaning of the novel as a whole. Support with specific textual evidence.

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"Why don't you ever use your strength on me? she said.

Because love means renouncing strength, said Franz softly.

Sabina realized two things: first, that Franz's words were noble and just; second, that

they disqualified him from her love life. "

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In the novel "The unbearable lightness of being" written by the author Milan Kundera one of the most important characters is Sabina who is a very important artist in the painting movement, she is also a lover of photography and all related to the visual art scene. she is characterized throughout the story for the special freedom she likes to feel in her life, specially in terms of love. Franz, one of her lovers who has a home place and a wife decides one day, after a long time of sharing time with Sabina, that he needed to be completely with Sabina in all terms, he decided to leave his wife. Nevertheless, once he confess the secret to his wife and finally leaves home, Sabina is not interested in him anymore. Sabina realises that what had called her attention from him was the idea of being free, sharing just some time with him, but sending him home after a while.

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