Love and Interest Often in life we are faced with challenges that force us to make decisions that can have conflicts with other values and beliefs that we have. In the novel Tree of Red Stars by Tessa Bridal, the characters Madga, Emilia, and Marco are all faced with difficult decisions that force them to make choices between what they love, and what they value in life. The time is set in the 1960’s and …showed first 75 words of 822 total…

…showed last 75 words of 822 total…there is a delicate balance between a person’s interests and love that they share with others. Places such as Afghanistan are real world examples of this struggle between differing groups of people. People there who don’t share ideas parallel to the leaders are forced into hiding, and a resistance very similar to the resistance in Uruguay has been started. Undoubtedly people there will be faced with the difficult decision between love, and values.