Similarities Between 'Whirligig And Crossroads'

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Imagine that you are responsible for someone else’s death and you have to live with that for the rest of your life. You would try to seek forgiveness from the victim’s family but also try to find a way to forgive yourself for this horrible mistake that you made. That is exactly what the two main characters in Whirligig and Crossroads have to overcome. Brent is the character from Whirligig that tries to kill himself by drinking and driving but instead kills another person. As for Justin, he kills a mother and daughter by recklessly street racing. Both of them not concerned for anyone else but themselves and didn’t give much thought as what could happen. They now have to find a way to accept if the families of the three killed will forgive

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