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“The Sailor Boy’s Tale” is a story with an obvious moral. This is the old adage “what goes around comes around.” Many times in this story, situations arise in which this cliché is apparent. This saying applies to much of life, and this story does a ....

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.... that proves this saying is displayed. The boy purchased himself an orange. His plan was to travel to the top of a bluff and devour the succulent fruit. On his way to the bluff, he encountered a girl who was near his age. She admired his piece of fruit. The boy at once decided to do the manly thing and offer his prize piece of fruit to the young lady. In turn she offered him a kiss. Once again establishing the “what goes around comes around saying.” The next situation that portrays this saying is when the man tries to stop the boy from going to see the girl again. The drunken Russian man who had given the boy a ride from his ship to the ....