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Gibbons 67)”. Similar in Ellen’s case, in Gibbon’s second novel A Virtuous Woman, Jack is in search to regain himself after a heartbreak loss to his wife Ruby who died several months prior from lung cancer. Jack is an old farmer and relied heavily towards Ruby. He is now left on his own, he acknowledges that only hope may lead him back on his tracks and leave all the crucial memories behind. Things became clear to Jack when he was welcomed to live with his friend Burr. Burr had most of the influence on Jack to achieve hope, happiness, and leave the depressing stages of his life only a memory in his mind. Having all that in mind, Jack acknowledges that fact and proudly voices to Burr about Ruby, “I told him it was a shame in this world he couldn’t have had a woman like Ruby, and he just had to shake his head like ‘I know’, (Gibbons 93)”. As well, another resemblance of hope to cope with life in a struggling situation, Gibbons third novel, A Cure for Dreams portrays a protagonist named Betty who retells the story of her mother’s life. As she’s brought up from a poor family, Betty has hope that one day she will surpass her mother’s and her own dreams that will once become a reality. From there Betty dreams of the wonderful things she may encounter along her path, and she begins with a dream, “The man in her one dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse, and then would reach down and take the ball of honour… (Gibbons 21).”Another similarity each character composes to cope with their struggle for survival is through courage. All protagonists are enforced to excel through self-motivation and confidence to remain in tact and focused to complete their heroic venture. In Ellen Foster, Ellen is raised to become a courageous child after witnessing her mother’s death and outrageous lifestyle her father set her. It seemed as if she was prepared for a ty...

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