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The “Luck” of the Irish In fair Dublin, young people sailed to the America’s to start what they dreamed would be a better life. Jack, who was barely getting by, was hoping to make it big in the New World, while Anna Lucky, coming from a wealthy, snooty family, was forced by her parents to receive a higher education in medicine. Although Anna aspired of becoming a writer, she was ‘taking after her father,’ as her mother would say, and in the process of getting a medical degree. When Jack arrived in America, he registered as a soldier and was immediately sent to fight. Jack was a courageous fellow and never back downed from a fight, thus Jack was a front line man. At his first battle, Jack was wounded in what almost ended his life from a shot in his upper thigh. Coincidentally, Anna was a doctor’s assistant for the wounded soldiers and ended up caring Jack. When Jack recovered, although not fully due to a massive lose in blood, and was conscience he noticed what he called ‘the fairest woman from either side of the Atlantic,’ and promised himself that she would be his wife. Anna benefited for two reasons, she felt the same attraction towards Jack as he did her and knew that an underclassman, such as Jack, would tick off her parents as revenge for sending her unwillingly to become a nurse. Soon enough, Jack and Anna fell into an endless love. While requesting the town friar to marry the young people, the Friar asked the two for the parents consent for the fact that they were young teenagers. Knowing her parents would not agree for a wealthy young lady such as herself to make a poor man like Jack her husband, Anna and Jack told him they had no living family and were sent to America to escape the grief of their losses and find a job. After they were wed, Anna schemed a plan to make things even with her parents. Anna’s way of doing this was introducing Jack to her parents, so she arranged a boat to sail to Dublin at once. Anna and Jack arrived welcomed by many due to Anna’s prosperity and social rank but were shortly were looked down upon when “the snoots,” as Anna put them, found out more about Jack. Anna had told her parents highly of Jack and that he too was also in the medical field. Delighted to meet such a man, Anna’s parents made a ruckus when they found out the truth and of his economic situation. They refused to let the two stay at ‘The Lucky Mansion’ and quickly banished the two. Anna, satisfied as can be, and Jack set sail for their home in America. More than half way across the Atlantic and anxiously awaiting their arrival, Anna, Jack, and the rest of the ship were mistakenly attacked and sunken by pirates known as the ‘Sea Dogs.’ News spread to many of this wrong attack against the innocent aboard, including Anna’s parents. The parents were full of shame and guilt for forcing their daughter and her newlywed away from their home, knowing in the back of their mind that they could have prevented this dreadfulness. Bursting with anger, Anna’s writing teacher from Dublin, Rosaline, knew of Anna’s true dreams of becoming a writer and troubles of the move to America, and knew she had to do something about it. Having the highest hopes of spreading a message of the need for love and family and the affect of greed and hate, Rosaline ended her final article before killing herself from grief by saying, “For there has never been a story gone so miserably off track, than this of Anna ‘Lucky’ and her beloved Jack.”