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"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves." This means you can be who you are and love what you love because we are "animals" and have feelings that religion can't control.

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All women in the story are faced with having to act and dress in a certain way or have to fear eternal damnation from god and can't go around it

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"Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again." Compared to Puritan ideas with a little symbolism the geese could have not been born with sin and therefore are able to go back to their home which in a Puritans case would be back to heaven.

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Henry Louis Gehrig had the hardwork and determination of a Puritan lifestyle. However, his devotion was to baseball and his fans. He played relentlessly "...through broken bones,
crippling attacks of lumbago, and even pitches taken to the head," proving his loyalty to his team and the people in the stands.

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The American Dream hasn't always been the popular phrase it is today, but since the beginning history of America people understood it and strived for the idea. The American Dream is hard work and hope for a better future for yourself and the next generations. Puritan ideas restricted what aspirations you could have, You were only living for God.

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"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting." The poem Wild Geese says that you're allowed to be who you are without any guilt. It is freeing people from the chains of religion.

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"...I was going to have to work harder to save my own soul. I was going to have to have the sort of moral adventures that produce that kind of goodness. I was going to have to be better at balancing my life.'' Balancing out your life can be done in a multitude of ways including through religion.

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"External ambitions are never satisfied because there’s always something more to achieve." Going along with the idea that the puritan god will never be satisfied with you.

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The woman in the story feels oppressed by her religion and that she can never escape  the wrath of her god and the  administration, so she rebels.

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A Better Life: Creating the American Dream

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A Better Life: Creating the American Dream