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Al Condraj In William Saroyan's The Parsley Garden
The short story titled “The Parsley Garden” by William Saroyan, is about an eleven year old boy named Al Condraj who lives in Fresno, Ca. The problem that Al goes through is that he unintentionally steals a hammer from a store. Although he did not measure the consequences of his actions, he learned from his mistakes and redeems his honor.

Al’s intentions with the hammer was just simply to build a bench with some nails that he had. Condraj’s mistake was to take something that wasn’t his, like I mentioned in the thesis he did not measure the consequences of his actions, which caused him humiliation. Al felt humiliated when he got caught “stealing” the hammer and got sent to the owner’s office accused of being a thief. “The first thing he did

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