Orphans In A Single Shard

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Orphans are children who have no biological parents to care for them. In the novel A Single Shard, Tree-ear is a young orphan in 12th century Korea. An essay based on an orphan by Jon Hamilton shows how the brain develops based on a biological parent. Tree-ear and Ruckel, the orphan in the essay, were both orphans growing up with little for themselves. They also had several differences. Tree-ear and Ruckel grew up as orphans in foreign countries. Ruckel had his surrogate mother, his adoptive family as well as the orphanage; Tree-ear had Crane-man. Ruckel grew up not knowing what real love was until he was adopted at an older age. By then, he was completely used to people beating him, so when his adoptive family was kind to him, he felt they

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