Love And Sacrifice

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Good morning everyone.

Today I am going to speak on love and sacrifice. My examples of love and sacrifice are from the book “Jillaroo” by Rachael Treasure, the song “Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle, and the movie “Ring of fire” produced by Paramount pictures.

In the story “Jillaroo”, there are many forms of love and Sacrifice. Rebecca Saunders sacrifices her place on the family’s property “Water’s Meeting” to get away from her father.

While working on a station in the Northern Territory as a Jillaroo, Rebecca falls in love with a man named Charlie Lewis (AKA. Basil Lewis, B N S King) Rebecca has to sacrifice the love of her life, Charlie, for her property “Waters Meeting”.

Rebecca sacrifices everything she has in her life for Charlie, but little did Bec Know being with Charlie meant sacrificing her freedom and all the farming techniques she knew and loved all to live with Charlie and his Family.

The “song butterfly kisses” is about a father who goes through his whole life taking care of his daughter and having her all to himself to love then he sacrifices her to be married. In this song the lyrics say she’ll make a promise, and I’ll give her away. Standing in the bride’s room just staring at her, she asked me what I’m thinking and I said ‘I’m not sure; I just feel I’m loosing my baby girl’. These lyrics explain exactly how the father feels.

The movie, “Ring of Fire” is a very good example of love and sacrifice. After a serious bull riding accident Ely Braxton is told never to ride bulls again. Ely’s girlfriend Connie try’s to make Ely give up rodeo. Ely sacrifices Connie for his love of bull riding. Hank, Ely’s brother is getting together with Celia Jones. Ely accidentally steals Celia from Hank. Ely then realises what he has done and sacrifices Celia for Hank’s sake.

In the end Hank makes the ultimate sacrifice (his life) while trying to save Ely from ...