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Have you ever put together a large jigsaw puzzle? When you put away the
puzzle, sometimes the pieces get lost or bent. If they do, when you take it back
out and try to reassemble it, the puzzle is not complete; the overall picture,
however, is still satisfying. In John Donne's "No Man Is an Island," the author
similarly says that the inhabitants of the world comprise a team. When the team
(the world) loses a player, the team is not complete, but it finds some way to
move on without that player. Every player is like a pebble that has been
dropped onto a perfectly still pond; the consequence of the impact ripples out
from the center. The ripples reach all sides of the pond, in a far-reaching
expression of cause and effect.
Donne begins his poem by telling the reader that every man is a part of a
whole: "No man is an island, entire of its self; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of a main" ("No Man Is An Island" sent. 1). He asserts that no
person is......

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