Comparing The Goose And The Golden Egg In Margaret Atwood's Oryx

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The Goose and the Golden Egg in the style of Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake Once in a distant land, unhinged from modern society, a lone house stood astray from the crippling daily routine of the townspeople encased in winding ivy and peppered with miniature surrounding farms. The Countryman lived alone in the old house, growing elderly and brittle, unable to work the fields he used to harvest to earn his salary; his stature and aching bones led to his farms demise, but admist all the emptiness, one goose lay happily on her nest, quite content being the alpha mammal in charge. The goose knew her worth, she tucked in her brilliant white feathers and held her neck up high, beak to the sky, almost as if she knew God was looking down on her.

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