... vendetta on his behalf.' In spite of her being old, weak, and vulnerable, she one mindedly prepares her dog Frisky to attack to kill the enemy on a stimuli and response principle. It reveals the strength of her character. It is a social custom in Italy to take up a vendetta to avenge a kinsman's death but as we all know in a Christian country it is against the Ten Commandments A SENSE OF RESTRAIN-A SENSE OF LIVELINESS When I read the stories I realised that there is definitely a sense of heavy sadness, a sense of restrain in Things Fall Apart. Where as A Vendetta deals with an equally violent subject with a sense of liveliness. The question is what gives them totally different moods? Can it be the society they are set in? or is it the culture they have inherited?Can it be the writer's style,or the language used ? ...

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