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Follow Your Heart - College Term Papers

Follow Your Heart

The novel is titled because Olga, the grandmother who wrote the letters, tried to convey to her Granddaughter that unless she follows her heart, she will never be happy. Olga has this viewpoint because during her life she didn't follow her heart, and made decisions based upon what other people had to say, no matter what she felt.
There were many times throughout Olga's life where she didn't follow her dreams. One example of this was when she married Augusto. Olga didn't really love Augusto. Her mother and father adored Augusto, and to make her parents happy, she married him. Olga though, was unhappy, and the quote "After three years of marriage, my one and only thought was of death" ...

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Another time where Olga didn't follow her heart was when she didn't go to University. Olga dearly wanted to go to University to receive a "classical education." Her father though, believed there was no point to it and felt that if she wanted to go study something, she should study languages. After Olga finished Grammar School she told her father that she "intended to go to the University of Rome." Her father wouldn't consider sending his daughter to the University, and the quote "as was custom in those days, I obeyed without a murmur" proves to us that Olga really wanted to go to University, but didn't follow her dreams because her father wouldn't allow her to.
When Olga went to visit Ilaria at the University, she didn't follow her heart because she knew she should have stayed. Olga felt that if she had of stayed in Padua, she might have been able to get back into Ilaria's life and become part of it again. The quote "when she said I had to go, I should have stayed. I ...

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Added: 5/30/2004 08:54:26 PM
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